LANG’S POLICY.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LII, Issue 117, 8 July 1931, Page 3

LANG’S POLICY.

CONFLICT WITH GOVERNOR COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS. SYDNEY, July 7. At a meeting of the Executivi Council to-night the Premier directer the Governor’s attention to the Gov eminent’s plight due to obstructior by the Legislative Council of its finan cial proposals. Mr Lang did not actually ask foi additional appointments to thal chamber, but gave His Excellency t( understand that the Government expected him to follow the advice of his Ministers. Sir Philip Game replied that nothing had occurred to induce him to change his views. The effect of this is that there will be no further appointments as far as he is concerned. Telegrams are reaching His Excellency from all parts of the country protesting' against the swamping of the Legislative Council. THE LANG GOVERNMENT. HOW TO GET RID OF IT. That the great majority of the people of New South Wales would like to consign the Lang Government to the outer darkness is beyond question, states the “Post’s” Sydney correspondent.

The problem, however, is just how to accomplish that end, since the Government, with a big backing of faithful followers in the Legislative Assembly, still has a long time to go before the ordinary effluxion of Parliament. Some believe that the Government will eventually find itself in such a financial pickle that it will be compelled to get out. Others in the community are puzzling their brains to know whether the King’s representative can summarily eject the Government. In the open columns of a section of the Sydney Press, correspondents are spilling much ink in a discussion of this issue, to which interest has been added by a petition which is now being largely signed, and which is to be presented to the Governor as a protest against what is known as the Lang plan. His Excellency is probably reading with a chuckle this animated controversy 89 to his powers, or lack of them, to get rid of His Majesty’s Government. If the public had not previously heard of Dicey, Professor Keith, and a few other constitutional authorities; of the struggle between the Crown and the Whigs; of the action of George 111. back in 1784 when he fell out with the politicians; of a constitutional treatise on England since Waterloo, and of other episodes back in the mists of time, they know all about it now. But they are still in doubt as to the Governor’s powers in the present year of grace to give the Lang Government notice.