NEW SOUTH WALES.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18652, 2 June 1932, Page 6

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The decision ot »e Council in the New South Wales Council abolition appeal case, vvi-ll no ‘doubt give widespread satisfaction in the State immediately affected, for it has been definitely established that thanks to the prescience of the Bavin Government such abolition cannot be effected without the sane ion of the electorates given by a plebiscite it been otherwise there would ha been nothing to prevent an tie me Government, with a majority in House passing -all sorts of freak legislation and imposing its will uponi the country. It is against this possibility -that the Upper House .provides a brake. With the experience New South Wales has recently had of Mr Lang's regime, it is hardly; PjobaWe that a plebiscite would result in favour of a single chamber. 11 1s p (lb f able that the last has been heard of Upper House abolition in New South Wales for a long time to come, lhe electors have been on the brink of a volcano and they are not likely.to crave for a repetition of the nigl t The decision of the Council will import additional interest into the Stale election which is to take place on Saturday, June 11. I't « evident from the daily cable messages and also from the press and private correspondence .received that the reactio to sane administration has been most pronounced in the Mother State though it is recognised that there is a possibility that Mr Lang will he returned to power. Should that contincencv occur what is likely to happen 7 Prior to 'his .last return to power, Mr Lang declared that he would never enter the Loan Council, but he did; he said that he could borrow outside of it, but he could not. Now Mr Lang Is committed to the Lang Plan and opposed to the Premiers’ Plan; but it has been proved already that the Lang Plan cannot prevail against the Commonwealth Constitution s»nd that the Premiers’ plan must\ win out it Australia is -to* win out. Any. Government in New South Wales or in any other State must adhere do the Premiers’ Plan and pay its Interest obligations. If it docs not, the Commonwealth has power to make n. If Mr Lang were Premier of New South Wales to-morrow, he would be compelled to admit 'this. . He would have to obey the Commonwealth laws or again receive his dismissal. The Lang faotlon must realise that to -send Mr Lang back to power would be to make -him conform to that which tie at present renounces, and to renounce his infamous plan which he at present porfesses to uphold. The choice before the New South Wales electors is a very one-sided one. Eventually, New South Wales must conform to sane policy. It Is a question of whether Mr Stevens will do it in full co-opera-tion with other Governments, or whether Mr Lang will be made 'to do it by a repetition of enforcement -laws and the confusion arising from resistance to 'them.