LABOUR SUPPORT

Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22064, 10 September 1941, Page 7

LABOUR SUPPORT

Mr Fadden Confident

(Rec. 11.20 p.m.) BRISBANE, Sept. 9. Mr A. W. Fadden is supremely confident of securing adequate support and political co-operation from the Federal Labour Party now that he has become Prime Minister. He expressed this view at a civic reception in his honour at Ipswich to-day. He said: “If Labour co-operates to the same extent as it did when I was Acting Prime Minister then I, and Australia through me, will have no cause for complaint.’’ Mi- Fadden also gave an assurance that Labour would grant a pair for Sir Earle Page during his absence in London. Mr Fadden referred to the forthcoming budget as outweighing anything that preceded it and he hoped, anything that would follow. Reviewing Australia’s primary production, he said that notwithstanding shipping difficulties export income had substantially increased since the war began, while the gross income of farmers was even higher than before' the war. In round figures in 1940-41 wool exports totalled £41,500,000, including wheat and flour £6,750,000, butter £12,000,000, sugar £4,750,000, and meat £15,750.000.