Politics in Australia.
PREFERENTIAL TRiADE QUB&
TION.
HON 1- MRI 'DEAXrNFS aPHNTOW.
(Per United Press Association-)
MELBOURNE, December 11
Hon. Mr Deakin is mot over sanguine on the elections- In, the course of a statement to a Press interviewer he saidl that 'he regarded the situartion extremely grave. It was miore glrtave in (Viotio^na tfhan ief:is|e/w'h€|re,. because the surplus candidates were dividing* th© Ministerial votes. It ■Kiohild!, ®add MJr HXaakin, probably cost us some seats .andi in the other States some, of .the seaits were in jeopardy fromi the same cause. Also the load programmes had ibaan drafted on those submitted by myself and ■the leader of tihe Opposition;, consequently aomie of the irepresentatives would be returned in loctal instead of national iOitefests. Our reliance is upon those who .appreciate tile magnificent possibilities of trade within the Empire Ibenefittingi. both its European centre and its extremities especially with regard-to Australia. Should! the Oppositionists secnu'e a majority preferential trade would be impossible-
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Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10500, 16 December 1903, Page 3
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