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MINISTER'S ATTACK
NEW STATE MOVEMENT
" SEDITION PREACHED"
INTEREST PAYMENTS
SYDNEY, < Sunday.
In. the course of an attack on
the New State movement at the
A.L.P., conference the Minister
for Lands (Mr. Tully) claimed
that sedition was being preached
in order to wreck the Lang
Government.
The country men behind the All
for Australia League were asking for
concessions from the Government for
interest, 'yet, when the Lang Govern
ment asked British bondholders to give
up half of what the country people
xii New South Wales were asking the
Government to do, members of the Gov
ernment were branded as repudiation
ists. f ' • "
Mr. Tully said steps had been taken
to arrange for a reclassification of all
areas within the Western district that
substantially exceeded home mainten
ance areas and no effort would be
spared to bring the Avork to early fin
ality. Substantial concessions had been
made in regard to the payment, of ar- j
rears by settlers and penal interest had
not . been charged. Interest relief in
cases where payments under the Closer
Settlement Act could not be met this I
year would amount to about £70,000. j
"NOT PLAYING GAME"
Mr. Tully asserted that private !
banks had not been playing the game
to the small settlers in the country
and claimed that they left the local
storekeepers Avithout cash. He urged
all country men to transfer their ac
counts*. to the Rural Bank.
Mr. Tully said the Government was
hot likely to prosecute the leaders of
the New England and Eiverina move
ments for sedition because such action
would . tend to make martyrs of Mr.
Hardy and the others. "Our inforina^
toon/" said Mr. Tully, <eis that these j
movements are blowing themselves out.
If we let them alone they will soon I
die away\" I
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