N.S.W. POLITICS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2191, 2 July 1914, Page 8

N.S.W. POLITICS

• IMMIGRATION

WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT

BIG LEGISLATIVE .'PROGRAMME.

;Br.,Tales-rash.—Press iAssooiatlon-Coryrlght ! „ , ' Sydney, July I. Mr. Holman announced the intention ■If of the Government to enter upon a new ! immigration policy similar to that . adopted by Now Zealand. than assist" to ■ increaso the sweltering population 'of Sydney ho vi'oukl prefer to see tlis. ; )vhol&,scheme.,of assisted immigra--tion disappear altogether. The* Government proposes to estab- ; lisli a State coal mine for railway supi. plies, to increase tho number of paid | Ministers to ten, to amend the Consti- .■ .'tlltion Act, in order to mako' woman ; , eligible for election to tho State Par- ' -liament, to put the trams underground, ■ . . to introduce a system of gun licenses in : border to. check tho use of pea-rifles, the "prohibition of monopolies over tho necessities of life, abolition of the death | ' 'Sentence, to/make illegal tho publication of' certain evidence,, amendment of : the company •< law, and tho establishi menfc of State ironworks. ; A Greater Sydney Council will be created, and the . present' forty-two petty municipalities ; abolished; Tho Government will frame ' ,a, new Building Act for the city and a , Town Planning .Act for the country. ■ STRIKES BARBAROUS AND . Sydney, July. 1. ' /Mr; Holman, in his speech, said that • strikes ■ wore barbarous and : wasteful, She .workers .would have to make up their minds whether they would have arbitration or strikes.They would bo unable to havo both, but the Government would iiot force arbitration upon ihoso unwilling to share in the benei .