AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1925, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

iOSIUALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION N.S.W. ELECTIONS. SYDNEY, April 27. Ike uoniinujtions for the State elections closed to-day with almost three hundred candidates lor ninety seats. The parties contesting the election are as follows: The Nat iemilist-Progressivc-('onI ilion Rally, the Progressive Party, the Protest a n t-T iid e pendent Labour I 'art.v. I lie Young Australia Party, and the Communist Party, besides several Independents.

POLICY SPEECH BY SIR Cl. FULLER, SYDNEY. April 27

The State election campaign was Denied at Mossvale by the Premier, ir Geo. Kiiller. delivering a policy

peech, which for the lirsl time in the islory of the State, was broadcasted v wireless.

After reviewing the past, perform-

uuces of the Government, in which lie said that an aeciuaulated deficit of £3.578.268 had been reduced by over one million sterling, be claimed that as l lie result of bis ndiuiiiisl ral ion. there would be no need during the

lining year to make an appeal on flu

local market for money. The Government intended to keep off the money market until the interest rate was re-

duced. Their policy would not be one of cheeseparing, but one which would ensure a maximum of good with a ininimum of expenditure. I here would bo further reductions of taxation, amounting to halt a million sterling. There would be a vigorous and sustain-

l effort to increase land settlement

mil to develop the .State’s power and esunrees. lie added that a strenuous

ho ft would be made to wipe off the Lcciunulnted deficit, and there would io a further reduction in the State iu-

'omo tax. He also outlined a scheme of prison eform, bv which the prisons would ie made self-supporting, lie said hat a referendum would lie taken on lie question of the abolition of tho Tpper House, its membership in any nso to be restricted to a period of ■cars, lie concluded by referring to he number of strikes in the Stale, ml said this must stop. If the law f present was not able to slop it. the aw must be tightened up in order to irotccl the majority of Ihe people in he State from Ihe machinations of a l unmoor us minority.