VICTORIAN POLITICS,
COMPULSORY RESUMPTION OF LAND. .. STATE COAL MINE. ■ (DY TELECBAriI-p&ESS iSSOCUTION-COrtBIGIIT.) ■* Melbourne, January 20. 'Tho Hon. J, Murray, the new Premier of Victoria, has delivered a policy speech. Ho announced that thero was little p'ros- , pect,of the year closing with a large surplus J owing to "the heavy reduction in the sum' likely to ho returned by the Commonwealth.- The Pren.ier'foreshadowed a loan for reproductive works on the first favour-able-opportunity. •* Several'measures which wero before'tho . Council, at the timo of the dissolution would be reintroduced. The programmo of tho Government includes electoral and land reform, including . purchase of largo estates for'settlement purposes; workers' compensation, a State Insurance establishment, and 8 Government coal mine. ' ,If during his visit to New Zealand, the ' Minister ;for Lands (Hon. H. H'Kenzie) nerd shown any easier or better road to- extensive productive land settlement, said the Premier, the Government would not hesitate to follow on the lines of the' Dominion. - ; RAILWAY RECLASSIFICATION. ' Melbourne, January 20. The reclassification of the railway sorvico provides for an increase in 11,000 salaries annually.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 January 1909, Page 7
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174VICTORIAN POLITICS, Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 January 1909, Page 7
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