FIGHT TO A FINISH
WITH FOREIGN OIL COMBINES. DR. PAGE’S DECLARATION. AUSTRALIA BEING BLED WHITE. SYDNEY, October 27. Speaking at the opening of the annual conference of the Country Press Association, Dr. Earl Page, Acting-Fed-eral Prime Minister, dealt with the transport question.. He declared that the progress of road locomotion in Australia was being hampered by the operations of foreign oil combines. He charged tliem with bleeding Australia white, both in peace and in war time, and endeavouring to dictate the developmental policy of the country. The progress of road locomotion had been handicapped by the large toll ‘which foreign oil combines had levied. The Commonwealth Government had decided that this unnecessary handicap should not be allowed to continue indefinitely. The Government was prepared to fight this foreign dictation of policy and exploitation to a finish. Though these companies had captured the Legislatures of many other countries in which they operated, they would not be able to work their will on Australia, which would not allow them to take “the savings that a national plan of transport would enable us to make.”—(P.A.) •
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Wairarapa Age, 28 October 1926, Page 5
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