FEDERAL POLITICS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 April 1931, Page 5

FEDERAL POLITICS

POSITION-IN CABINET.

SCULLIN WILL MEET HOUSE. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright? -MELBOURNE, Thursday. Despite the J. A. Beasley group’s threat to absent themselves from the House of Representatives next week, the Prime Minister announced to-day that the Government plans to meet the House on Tuesday regardless of consequences. In that event a snap vote will involve dee-fat- by oue or two votes. (The J. A. Beasley group in the Federal House of Representatives is a section of Lang sympathisers and supporters which came into active existence as a result of the Labour 'Cabinet reshuffle on March 2nd. Its most recent recruit is the East Sydney by-election winner, Mr E. J. Ward. On March 12tli the Sc nil in Ministry was threatened by a motion of censure and no-confidence, and on that occasion it was saved by the Beasley group, which, to the surprise of some observers, decided to keep the Government in power. Though numerically small, the group holds the Government in the hollow of its hands. Its members are Messrs Beasley, F. Anstey, Ward, Eldridgo and Lazzarini.) OPTIMISTIC EX-GOVERNOR, (Received Friday, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Thursday. Sir James O’Grady, interviewed at Southampton, after six- years as Governor of Tasmania, said that the worldwide financial depression had hit Aushard, but that there was no need to worry about the exchange. He had ” never lived amojig people who had such a quick power of recuperation. They were beginning to get to grips with the probiem, tall’-hg on their coats aud rolling up their shirt sleeves. With the efforts they were making Australia will begin to emerge from trouble about 1932. The idea, of repudiation by the Commonwealth was, generally speaking, absurd. He believed that New South Wales will fall into line with the Commonwealth, and every half-penny owing would be paid in full. British investors had no need to fear, as Ausnsi tt Whole* have got sane, level heads. With twenty million inhabitants which ought to be achieved within twenty years Australia would become the greatest power financially and industrially in the southern seas.