LATE CABLE NEWS.
(Received Feb. 4, 1 p.m.) PERTH, Feb. 4. Mr, Thomson, leader of the Country parly, delivered a, policy speech at Katanning, He denounced the Government tor recklesu expenditure, and urged the disposal of Statd trading concerns and the appointment of a Board to control group mid soldier settlement. He said the figlit was not whether the executive of the Primary Producers' Association Bhould have the right to endorse candidates for Parliament, but a light of country districts and their interests against vested interests. The Country party had made a mistake in not selecting men to represent it in a Coalition Ministry, and as a result their Ministers became Mitchell's Ministers. Tliff County party favored co-operation of the West Australian and Imperial Governments in an immigration scheme, as migration is preferable to the- retention of surplus population in Britain on unemployment doles. LONDON, Feb. 3. At Chamounix the Olympic bob sleigh competition resulted in" the Swiss team winning in the record Olympic time of eighty-five seconds; Britain second; Belcium third ; France fourth. There were no mishaps.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16348, 4 February 1924, Page 8
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