The Review of Reviews. 



January, iqi: 



IThe Bvllctin. 



MAKING FOR THE PROMISED LAND. 



Mr. Woodman said that such a gathering of lighting men 

 liad never before travelled half way across The globe to- 

 gether. All were making for S.vdney. which was regarded 

 as ■' the .Mecca of fighting men." In S.vdney. iluring_ tlie 

 next few months, there would be some of the greatest fights 

 ever known in the history of hexing. 



fconomisp? It is certainly spending with a lavish 

 hand. Thei'f seejiis no rea.son why a loan should 

 be wanted just now. Probably Mr. Fisher is pro- 

 viding for contingencies, and is looking forward to 

 the end of the next financial year, when another good 

 season and the loan may give a credit Icalance whirli 

 will give apparent proof of financial ])frspicuitv. 



• The loan, says Mr. Fisher, is not a 



A Loan Not loan in the ordinary sen.se. He is 

 a Loan. ,„-,iy going to replenish No. i ac- 



count by taking from No. 2, which, 

 1)eing interpreted, means that the money is to come 

 from the Australian Notes Trust Funds account. 

 Do.'s Mr. Fisher overlook the ia.ct that this account 

 must he kept goul? Surely not; and so his argu- 

 ment thai ,1 liian i-; not a loan when the Labour 

 Governmtiit, which .sternly .set its face against bor- 

 rowing, seeks authority to borrow money from one 

 dejjartment to spend in others, is only a j)iece of 

 fine-.si)un sophi.<try. The money will go in the 

 Western Railway scheme, in acquiring the land in 



tht; Cajiital Territory (.ill of it is to be resumed), in 

 purchase of land and erection of buildings in Lon- 

 don, in Northern Territory obligations which the 

 Government takes over from South Australia, and in 

 payment to South Au.stralia of money expended nut 

 of revenue for the Port Augusta-Oodnadatta rail- 

 way. It is a matter of some concern that the 

 Government is reihicing the gold securitv against 

 notes. .Altogether, its financing is of a somewhat 

 wobblv character, 



.Mr. Willis has at last roused him- 

 The New South gt'lf from the moral lethaa-gy into 

 Wales Speaker, .^^.l,i^,h he had fallen. Possibly our 



remarks in our last issue may have 

 heljied him. Let us hope so. The fact remains 

 that he has fallen out with the Party from which 

 he accepted office, and has told them in so many 

 words that they have broken their compact with 

 him. His agreement was, he says, that the Elec- 

 toral Bin should be passed, that no more conten- 

 tious legislation brought in, and that a dis.solutiGn 

 sli;>uld then take place. The record of the past 

 few weeks is that the \ery opposite has been at- 

 tem|>ted. The Go\ernment retorts that the bye- 

 election which gave another seat to it brought about 

 quite a different state of affairs. But it is signi- 

 ficant that the Government let the event pass without 

 attempting to modify the agreement. Clearly, Mr. 

 Willis ought to resign, and so end the compact, and 

 force upon the Government the onus of the discredit- 

 able position that now exists. Mr. Willis still holds 

 Mr. Wood at arm's length. ' That gentleman came 

 to the dooir of the House and reijuested that what 

 was necessary to be done to secure his return to the 

 chamber should be done, but Mr. Willis declined to 

 consider the rei]uest while the motion of censure 

 then liefore the House was being discussed. This 

 is party Government with a vengeance. The infer- 

 ence is that Mr. Wood's return might have altered 

 things, another proof that the present position is 

 unfair and intolerable. 



The West Australian Government is 

 (iovernments delilierately opening the door to 

 and Morals, gambling. Whippet racing is one 



of the most pernicious forms of 

 gambling, and is carried on to a great extent in the 

 West, and the Government has removed the embargo 

 upon it, placing it upon the same level as horse- 

 racing as far as facilities are concerned. It is a 

 serious thing indeed when a Government makes one 

 of its first acts an extension of facilities to indulge 

 in a vice. A proposition also came l)efore the New 

 South Wales House by one of the members of the 

 Government, to establish a State lottery. One couhl 

 not help siirpri.se at Mr. (iriffith, one of the Minis- 

 try, entering into an eulogy of gambling. The 

 situation was saved somewhat by the Premier, Mr. 

 McGowen, protesting against it, and declining to do 



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