15 OCTOBER 1927, Page 2

The issue of main political importance was whether it was

permissible for a Government to take its orders from bodies outside Parliament. 'Mr. Lang and his colleagues were notoriously mere delegates of Labour bodies. So vital did Mr. Bruce, the Australian Prime Minister, think this issue to be that he took the unusual course of speaking publicly against Mr. Lang. Mr. Lang had flatly refused to co-operate in Federal financial schemes, holding that New South Wales was a much too humanitarian State to be corrupted by that back- ward Federal organization, the Loan Council. Mr. Bavin, who will succeed Mr. Lang as Premier in New South Wales, will be at the head of a Coalition Govern- ment formed of the Nationalist and Country Parties. He will readily co-operate with the Federal Government.