AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) ENGINEERS {UNION WARNING. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. The Commonwealth Council of Amalgamated Engineering Union issued a warning to unemployed members of the organisation in Now South Wales against applying for employment in Queensland railways. There are about three hundred unemployed members in New South Wales.

NO TRAINS. BRISBANE, Sept. 7. It is now clear that Queensland will not have any trains this week. There is even some doubt if the service can be started next week. A procession of fifteen hundred railway men. marched through the city streets, being quiet and orderly throughout.

LANG’S POLICY SPEECH. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. Mr Lang delivered his policy speech at Auburn to-night. After outlining the Government’s achievements, he said his term of office had ended with one of the largest, surpluses in the history of the State, £1,458,932, without harrassing industry. If his Government were returned they would continue the policy of progressive development and reform. Proposed legislation included Bills to abolish the Legislative Council and give effect to the referendum initiative and recall L> the extension of tho Widows Pension T Act, making its provisions as extensive and generous as the conditions of the finances of the State admitted. He hoped also to extend the Family Endowment. Steps should be taken to „ develop the State coal mines, to serve the railways in the southern and noithern districts. He would also pass a Milk Bill which would provide a board to control the industry the Board to he constituted on lines of the Mater Board and have complete avtlioritj over the industry. The Government s land scheme would make available to Australian settlers valuable land previously held by monopolists. He concluded by outlining a comprehensive water conservation scheme and denying that the Labour Party was responsible to anyone but the electors, stating the talk of Reds and bolshevism was simply dust thrown in the pyes pf tho unthinking and unwary.