PETITION TO KING

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19052, 16 September 1933, Page 5

PETITION TO KING

UPPER HOUSE REFORM. EX-PREMIER LANG’S MOVE. DISSATISFIED WITH REFERENDUM. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. United Press assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Sept. 16, 11.10 a.m.) s SYDNEY, Sept. 16. The Labour Daily states that Mr J. T. Lang, ex-premier, has submitted a petition to be cabled to the King and the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr J. H. Thomas) asking His Majesty to refuse to instruct the Governor of New South Wales to assent to the "bill passed by Parliament last week, dealing with the Upper House Reform, pending an appeal to the Privy Council in equity on the claim of Mr P. J. Doyle, M.L.C., which was dismissed by the Full Court. The petition sets out that the Australian Labour Party has consistently supported constitutional Government, and desires to retain it, that there is Intense dissatisfaction over the recent referendum and that “the Labour Party and many others opposed to them on ordinary Issues, believe the present Ministry Is attempting to carry measures of overturning popular Government, similar to those that ~ have been carried In European countries.” i “In the meantime oases have been brought by Messrs. Piddington and Doyle to have the referendum and the State Government’s actions upset." ; When the appeal was mentioned in the Equity Court, the Acting-Chief Justice, Judge J. M. Harvey, said he found difficulty in deciding what to do. The suits should be amalgamated and the issues stated In one case before proceeding to seek appeal to the higher authority. He therefore adjourned the case for a week.