AUSTRALIAN STATE GOVERNMENTS
REMARK BY MR SEMPLE CRITICIZED (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, September 20. “I hear that your Minister of Transport and Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) has been saying that he could not understand why we had state Governments in Australia instead of a centralized authority," said the Hon. M. F. Bruxner, deputy Premier of New South Wales, on his arrival by the Aorangi. He was referring to a statement reported to have been made by Mr Semple after a recent visit to Australia. “It would have been better had Mr Semple taken into consideration the facts before he spoke. What he did not pause to think was that while New Zealand has a population of 1,500,000, New South Wales alone has a population of 2,500,000, with an area of 300,000 square miles. Its budget is £60,000,000 annually compared with New Zealand’s £40,000,000, so that if Mr Semple finds his own job a full time one in New Zealand what must it be in each of the Australian states? Moreover, New South Wales is growing and will be a bigger place than New Zealand ever will.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23310, 21 September 1937, Page 8
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