AUSTRALIA’S DARK OUTLOOK.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18817, 4 March 1931, Page 9

AUSTRALIA’S DARK OUTLOOK.

Ideals of Democracy. AUSTRALIA HOTLY ASSAILED. United Press Association--By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, March 3. Bishop Crotty, of Bathurst, addressing the Constitutional Association, said Australia did not possess, a democracy. There was little or no Government for the people, nor was there a Government by the people. He could find nobody who was being enriched by it in body, mind, or spirit. The democratic experiment at any time was dangerous, but it had positively no hope of being successful when it jettisoned every democratic princinle, every sanity and every safeguard, by which it was bound. “Democracy stands to raise the race of men who live by work, and not hoboes,” he added. FEDERAL BUDGET. DECREASES IN REVENUE. United Press Associat-on—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright CANBERRA, March 3. For eight months of the financial year to February 28, the amount of Customs revenue received was £19,985,505, which is £9,660,873 less than in the corresponding period of last year, and £6,481,162 below the estimated revenue. The postal revenue was also £1,285,817 less than estimated receipts. LOWER WAGES. THOUSANDS AFFECTED IN VICTORIA. United Press Association—By Electrlo Tel egraph—Copy right MELBOURNE, March 3. Twenty-seven thousand employees are affected by the judgment of the Full Court of Arbitration, the Court reducing the wages of members of the Australian Workers’ Union, employed in the fruit picking industry by 7b per cent.