QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS.
STATEMENT BY PREMIER. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. BRISBANE, April 10. The Premier (Mr W. McCormack), in a policy speech at Cairns, after comparing the financial position of Queensland with that of the other States, claimed that the State’s credit was very sound. He stated, that the Government was endeavouring to increase the area of forest plantations and to regenerate the 'hardwood forests. Ho forecasted widows’ and orphans’ pensions schemes, and the extension of the motherhood and child welfare schemes to the large centres. The Government intended to increase the payments to injured workers to the full rate of wage earned, hut not exceeding the basic rate, and 1 also to increase the payments to workers suffering from miners’ pthisis and other occupational diseases/ to provide workers’ homes and dwellings on a more generous scale, and it was prepared if the Commonwealth Government would co-operate financially to assist in the development of the cotton industry.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 12 April 1926, Page 9
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160QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 12 April 1926, Page 9
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