The Labour opposition in the House of Representatives 18S greatly perturbed because Lord Forster of Lope, the Governor-General, dared the other day to express the opinion that State enterprises were bound to fail. He was attending some meeting at wifich the necessity for increased population in Australia wat voiced, and in the course of his remsiks he ucg:: d the encouciyemnent of private enterprise, and also sed the opinion to which the Labour members take so muck exception.
They say that Lord Forster must have known that State enterprises were in the programme of their party, and therefore to express views against them was to shai himself a partisan, and to impo: his hide-bound conservatism from England, ete. etc. The secretary of the Labour parliamentary party declares that the matter will be dealt with when Parliament
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