A PREMIER’S SPEECH.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.
MELBOURNE, Aug. 24
The Premier, speaking at Nhill, enumerated the Government policy. He made passing reference to the strike. The Government has been enabled to regain over its own servants control that it had well-nigh lost. He expressed a hope that thq Railway Commissioners would extend to the men such reasonable treatment as would reconcile them to the! change in their position. The work of tile Government, however, would not he completed until they had taken such steps as would save Hie community from a recurrence of such a catastrophe. Referring to the future the Government had arrived at the Conclusion that in jthe interests of the State the principle of compulsory purchase should fie :ands suitable for closer settlement. .There were two- million acres of good agricultural land ready for Ploughing now devoted to grazing, and served by railways, which should •be resumed and settled by farmers who were now, squeezed out of Victoria, The Government propose to purchase land, sell the freehold to iiixmers, payable in small instalmejnts extending over a) lfapigp number ol .years.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 977, 25 August 1903, Page 1
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184A PREMIER’S SPEECH. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 977, 25 August 1903, Page 1
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