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Meanwhile, Joe Lyons & wife loomed last week as two of the most notable characters to emerge from what uppity Great Britons call ''Down Under." Seven short years ago the Hon. Mr. Lyons was merely Premier of Tasmania, an island which is down under Australia and referred to by Australians as "The Speck." From this insignificant island Joe Lyons bounded with Horatio Alger rapidity to the Premiership (January 1932) of busted Australia whose national credit he proceeded to restore. Australian-born, the Premier and Mrs. Lyons had never been outside Australia in their lives until this spring when they sailed...
...afternoon bedight as a Field Marshal, he motored to Victoria Station. There amid jostling notables waited "The Man From Tasmania." famed Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia who has restored the finances of that spendthrift dominion...
When returns came in Conservatives breathed with relief. After a campaign in which tousle-haired Joseph Aloysius Lyons, "the Honest Man from Tasmania," had flown over 7,000 miles in a plane branded FAITH IN AUSTRALIA, he found himself still Premier with his Cabinet intact. His United Australia Party, with the help of the Country Party, retains a shrunken but safe majority in both Houses. Enticing schemes of government inflation advocated by both the Dominion's former Laborite Premier J. H. Scullin and the irrepressible J. S. Lang of New South Wales seemed safely shelved. Langites took comfort...
Proudest man in Australia last week was tousle-haired Premier Joseph Aloysiu Lyons. When he took office 22 month? ago Australia's finances were an Empire scandal. Commonwealth bonds were on the verge of interest default. Joe Lyons, who had only recently emerged from the political wilds of Tasmania, formed a Cabinet and pulled in his belt. Things looked better last year, and last week he had real news. Reading his budget speech before the House of Representatives, he announced that the Commonwealth had, instead of an estimated deficit of ?1,302,000, a surplus...
Part of Australia's brief surplus will go for public works. Canberra, the still half-built "Washington of Australia." will get a water system, and Premier Lyons will be able to speak to his old home in Tasmania by a submarine telephone cable...