NEW SOUTH WALES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143473, 21 April 1911, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

A LARGE PROGRAMME. OUTLINED BY MR. HOLMAN. By Elect r : Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received April 21, 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY. April 21. Mr. Holman, Minister of Justice, in a speech at Gundagai, outlined the Government programme, the chief items of which wore, a vigorous land development policy, the building of railways in advance of settlement, tho subdivision of lands thus opened for settlement, the duplicating of the main lines of railway, a new Arbitration Bill, reorganisation of the public finances, which would bo placed on a businesslike footing, and the opening of State coal mines to supply the railways. .More taxation was foreshadowed, the burden of which would bo put on tho backs of those that would bo .best able to bear it. The linking of tho City and North Sydney by means of tunnels would receive immediate attention. The question of extinguishing the State debt would bo vigorously faced. It was intended to establish a new Labour Department with the object of keeping workers acquainted with tho state of industrial conditions. '

Mr. Holman foreshadowed a new Workmen’s Compensation Act, getting rid of the present restriction to £2OO benefit for workmen permanently injured ; tho establishment of model suburbs as workmen’s homes; wide-reaching prison law and education reforms; and tho encouragement of co-operative meat works.