STATEMENT OF POLICY ON BEHALF OF N.S.W. GOVERNMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1911, Page 7

STATEMENT OF POLICY ON BEHALF OF N.S.W. GOVERNMENT.

VIGOROUS LAND DEVELOPMENT. REORGANISATION OF PUBLIC FINANCES. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 21, 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. W. A. Holman, Acting-Premier, speaking at Gundagai, outlined the Government programme, comprising a vigorous land development policy, Ihe building of raildays in advance of settlement, sub-division of lands thus opened for settlement, duplicating the main lines of railway, a new Arbitration Bill, reorganisation of the public finances, which would be placed on a businesslike footing, and the opening of State coal mines to supply the railways. More taxation was foreshadowed, the burden of which would be put on the backs of those who would be best able to bear it. The linking of the city with North Sydney by means of tunnels would, said Mr. Holman, receive immediate atten Ition. The question of extinguishing the .State debt would bs vigorously faced. It was intended to establish a new Labour Department, with the object of keeping the workers acquainted with State industrial conditions. He foreshadowed a new Workmen's Compensation Act, with the object of getting rid of the present restriction to £200 of the benefit for workmen £3ermanently injured, the establishment of model suburbs as workmen's homes, a wide-reaching prison law, and education peforms, and the encouragement of co- - operative meat works. ■