NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS,

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS,

ST,- SESSION OPENS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. July 23, 8.45 p.m.) . Sydney, July 23. Tho . Staj:e' Parliainent has been opened. Amongst the measures promised in the Governor's Speech ar ® the reintrodnction of tlie Bill to increaso members' salaries to J!500 a year, tho Parliamentary Privileges Bill, and other measures dealing with closer settlement, housing, early 'closing, and industrial arbitration. Education, reform, the effective regulation of Sunday trading, and .tho construction of railways, 'particularly for tho opening up of wheat areas, are to be' dealt with. So far as can be gathered, says tho Sydney "Daily Telegraph," the "session is likely to be largely concerned with the question of.railways and railway administration. Nothing can be discovered to justify any assumption that the Government does not intend to push forward with its proposal to curtail the power of the Chief Commissioner regarding duplication work. Rather is the reverse likely to happen, and it is suggested that whatever the merits of tho case made out before for attacking the' subject of railway control it has been strengthened rather than weakened in the meantime. ..There is no Toom for doubt, adds our contemporary, that supporters of the Ministerial party are anxious to change tho present system, notwithstanding that they did .not come out of a recent controversy too well, and it is inconceivable that seme further attempt will not be mado to introduce the shade of political control, though that may. not bo precisely tho term mado use of."