FARMERS AND POLITICS.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph—Press Association' -Copyright • ; Sydney, July 11. ■ The Farmers' and Settlers' Conference resolved that any increases in the salaries of members of Parliament should be submitted to a referendum. ?. The 'conference, decided in favour of freedom of contract against tho present system of day labour and preference to Unionists. - . Mr. Holman, tho. Premier, in an address to 'the conference, oatlined the Government's policy of developing the .country. . Because, ho said, the Government had spent six millions on railway development, the Liberals woro raising the cuckoo-cry of extravagance. The only extravagance chargeable against tho Government was- its eudoavour to overtake tho neglected development of the past.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1800, 12 July 1913, Page 5
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112FARMERS AND POLITICS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1800, 12 July 1913, Page 5
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