CONVENTION LIKELY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 735, 12 April 1933, Page 1

CONVENTION LIKELY.

Mr Lyons’s Offer to State Governments. ALTERING CONSTITUTION. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received April 12, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 12. Mr Stevens, Premier of New South Wales, has received a telegram from Mr Lyons to the effect that the Commonwealth Government is prepared to assist arrangements for a convention to make recommendations on the question of amending the constitution of the Commonwealth, should the Parliaments of the States, or a majority of them, agree that such a convention should be held. The State Cabinet has informed Mr Lyons, Prime Minister, that the New South Wales Government will be pleased to be represented at a convention of representatives of the Commonwealth and State Governments to discuss the Commonwealth Constitution. A Canberra message says that Mr Lyons stated that even if a Western Australian delegation went to England to make representations to the British Government on the secession issue, the Commonwealth Government would not consider sending a Federal delegation to put the other side of the case. “ We certainly are not going to waste money on a movement to combat a political and constitutional impossibility,” he said. A Perth message says that the latest secession figures are as follows:

Votes. 115,394 Against For convention Against 99.110