A New Zealander

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 9

A New Zealander

QUEENSLAND’S NEW PREMIER Mr. Moore Born in Napier (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) BRISBANE, Monday. QUEENSLAND’S next Premier, Mr. Arthur Edward Moore, is, like Premier Bavin, of New South Wales, a New Zealander by birth. He was born in Napier, and at the age of 11 went with his parents to Australia.

Mr. Moore is 53 years of age. He is a son of Mr. Edward Moore, general manager of the Union Bank of Australia, Melbourne and London. He was educated at Akaroa, New Zealand, and at the Melbourne Grammar School. He has had varied experience as a farmer. He entered the State Parliament in 1915 as member for Aubigny, and has represented that electorate ever since. In July, 1923, he became leader of the Country Party and of the Opposition. It is now regarded as certain that the anti-Labour forces in the new Queensland Parliament will have a majority of 21. Prominent Labour officials say that two more Ministers, Mr. J. Stopford, Home Secretary, and Mr. M. J. Kirwan, Minister of Works, are cer-

tain to be defeated at Mount Morgan and Brisbane respectively.

The Premier, Mr. William McCormack, attributes his smashing defeat to the general desire for a change of Government, to the promise of the Opposition to find employment for 10,000 unemployed, and to the Government’s hostile attitude toward the railwaymen’s and waterside workers’ strikes some time ago. Disinterested judges, however, say the defeat of Labour was due to its general mismanagement and its failure to solve the unemployment problem; also to the stagnation of industry generally. The Parliamentary Committee of the Federal Country Party says 14 years of State Communism in Queensland has ended with the most remarkable defeat in the history of Australian politics.