N.S.W. GOVERNMENT POLICY OUTLINED

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1932, Page 5

N.S.W. GOVERNMENT

POLICY OUTLINED

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

(Australian Press Association.)

SYDNEY, Sep. 6.

With the traditional ceremony, the New South Wales Parliament was opened to-day. The Governor-General set out 1 the legislative programme of the Stevens Government. The .programme is to be confined mainly to urgent measures for affording relief, which the present economic conditions demand They wall he particularly in the direction of stimulating re-employment. The speech said' there was a tendency toward improvement in commodity prices overseas, which was regarded as a matter for gratification. The Government anticipated an appreciable impetus in the export trade from the Ottawa agreements, and x also from the forthcoming World Economic Conference .

The legislation, stated the speech, would include measures for fixing a standard working week in various industries, if or promoting better relations betweon employers and employees, generally, for lightening the burdens of the primary propducers; for an extension of the moratorium; alse? provision for the extension of the powers of municipalities to enable them to acquire and provide land for smal holdings.

I M.ORE! N.S.W. COUNCILLORS. (Received this day at. 10.25 a.m.) ■SYDNEY, Sep. 7. . Premier Stevens announced that his Excellency the Governor (Sir Phillip Game) had agreed to the appointment of seventeen additional members of the Legislative Council to ensure a majority in that Chamber to give effect to the Ministry’s policy.