STATES AND COMMONWEALTH
THE FINANCIAL RELATIONS
Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright MELBOURNE, April 24. Mr Bent, referring to the approaching Premiers' Conference, staled that- it would be necessary to attack with 'determination, the subject* of the financial re.ations be•ween the Cmnnmnwealih aim the.Mutes. There appeared it. be a disposition among many Federal ■members to think thai they could ride rough-shod over tin Statu;. Thev had been Ud to believe thai the Stales were to be iiuiependem, but the prevalent- idea seemed to be to gel Lie whole thing into il:e hands ot the toiiimonwealth. He was sorry to say that the Colonial Office was helping in that direction. From conversions he had bad with the Earl of Elgin, he found taat he favoured one conduit pipe instead of Uix. The present State (iovenim.i were coming to be just a kind ol eluef clerk.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13578, 25 April 1908, Page 5
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