Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Monday 24 May 1943, page 4


HARD TO RECONCILE,

PREMIER SAYS BENDIGO,

Sun: Mr Dunstan, Premier, on Saturday described Mr Cain's policy speech as a concoc-tion of shadowy promises for a dim distant future." Mr Cain's proposals for decentralisation were hard to reconcile with the instruction he had received from the ALP to form a Government to introduce redistribu-tion on such a basis as would effectually place all control in the hands of city electors. Mr Cain had been strangely silent on the inequities of the so-called uniform taxa-tion plan, which he had supported, and which had penalised the taxpayers of his own State to the tune of £4,000,000 per annum.

ST KILDA INDEPENDENT

in the State election nominations, published on Saturday, the name of Ethel A. V. Pace, who is standing as an Independent candidate for St Kilda, was incorrectly given as Ethel A. V. Page.

ELECTED FOR LOWAN

Lieut Hamilton Lamb, MLA.

who is now a pri?

soner of war in I Java, has been re- I elected, unopposed, for

the State seat of Lowan in the Legislative Assembly. Lieut Lamb is a member of the Victorian Country party. The photograph published here was taken before he left for the Middle

Lieut Hamilton

Lamb, SfLA

East. ,| He was first elected as member for I Lowan in 1935. I