MR LANG PAUSES

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16748, 15 March 1926, Page 5

MR LANG PAUSES

*" RECALL OF GOVERNOR. HOSTILITY OF MINISTERIALISTS. ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S ORDERS. Owing to the hostility shown by Ministerialists to tho proposal to demand the recall of the State Governor, it Is stated that Mr Lang and his colleagues will not now proceed with it, but the At-torney-General has received modified instructions to secure a statement from the Imperial auth-... orities concerning tho situation. Mr Lang issued a statement declining to either take a referendum on tho abolition of the Upper House or to appeal to tho country. It is stated that there has boen a misreading of Mr Amory's message, which pointed out that if tho Governor and Minister were at a deadlock the ultimate tribunal must bo the doctors. f United Press A^snc'e'-ion.T ((Received March 15. 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 15. In consequence of the pronounced hostility shown by Ministerialists It is probable the Premier and his colleagues will not now proceed with the proposal to recall Hie Governor. Jt is learned from an authoritative source that the Attorney-General has been advised by Mr Lang to confine his mission to the refusal of Admiral y Sir Dudley de Chair, the Slate Governor, to make additional appointments to the Legislative Council. The Imperial authorities will be invited to make a definite pronouncement upon the question as to whether a State Governor can refuse to aceepl the advice of his Ministers when additional appointments to the Legislative Council are decided by a Ministry. THE PREMIER OBSTINATE. NO PLEBISCITE OR ELECTION. ALREADY HOLDS A MANDATE. (Received March 15, 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 15.

During the week-end Mr Lang issued a statement in which he announced that he did not propose to take a referendum of the people on the abolition of the Upper House, and was also opposed to, making a direct appeal to the electors by way of a general election. He asserts that he already has a mandate for the rCas-ori that " the Labour Party received a majority over alt other parties it the last elections, and that the first plank of the Australian Labour Party platform included the abolition of the Council. A MISREAD MESSAGE.. THE OBVIOUS COURSE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 15, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, March,l4. Press messages from Australia would make it appear that there has been some misreading of the message of March. 8, referring to Mr Amcry's December despatch, pointing out that the New South Wales' Legislative ' Council question was purely a constitutional matter between the Governor and his Ministers. This reference was followed by an unofficial, but authoritative opinion that failing an agreement between the Governor and Hij Ministers it was obvious that the ultimate tribunal must be the electors. This unofficial opinion appears to have been mistakenly read in Australia, as part of the despatch, instead of merely an authoritative com-

rhent upon the despatchThe same authority to-day gave an assurance that if the Governor would not give way and the Government would not appeal to the electors, there was another alternative, for whJch there were many precedents—namely, to accept the existing situation until a change of Governor or a change of Government, or both, cleared the way to a mutual agreement.