COMMONWEALTH CABLES.
encouraging wheat-crow-ing. United I’rebs Association. (Received 9.50 a. in A Sydney. July l(i. In the Assembly, Hr Graham stated that the Government intended gnaranteering Is per bushel for wheat grown on additional areas in
the coming ha vest. II growers got more, all the better. Hu* outlined a scheme for hulk-wheat handling, providing an elevator capacity of 1.1 million bushels in Sydney and lifty(ive smaller elevators in the country, the whole cost of scheme to he 2‘, millions.
FARMERS’ CONFERENCE,
(Received 9.50 a.in.) Svdnoy. July 16
At the Farmers’ Conference, Mr Heehy said the political machinery had degraded polities, and there was no semblance of democracy, the machine denying the right of a .substantial majority to political representation. The only way to overcome this was by proportional representation. The meeting decided on the following plunks of their platform: Fleetoral reform, national insurance, decentralisation. a vigorous policy of immigration, an extension of railways, closer settlement, and an extension of the definition of Federal powers.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 65, 16 July 1915, Page 8
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