POLITICAL CRISIS LIKELY
LANG’S WAGES REDUCTIONS
ATTITUDE OF UPPER HOUSE
AMENDMENTS ANTICIPATED
DESPERATE NEED OF MONEY
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 12.50 a.m. Sydney, Aug. 4. The Legislative Council to-day resumed consideration of the Public Service Salaries Reduction Bill, which, it is believed, will precipitate a State political crisis as the Council intends to amend the Bill by providing a graduated scale of reductions applying to lower as well as higher employees and eliminating the £5OO salary maximum, which is described as iniquitous. Mr. J. T. Lang takes so serious a view of the matter that he has cancelled a trip to Melbourne to-night to attend a Loan Council meeting, and sent his Attorney-General, Mr. Lamaro, as a substitute.
Well informed persons state that Mr. Lang’s position is desperate. He must have £500,000 from the Loan Council this week in order to pay Government employees "wages on Thursday, and the Loan Council before granting more money intends to insist that his economy plan must be in full working order.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1931, Page 7
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