VICTORIAN POLITICS.
A POLICY SPEECH. ELECTORAL AND LAND REFORM. Received January 23, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 20. The Hon. J. Murray, the new Premier of Victoria, has delivered a policy speech. He announced that there was little prospect of the year closing with a large surplus, owing to the heavy reduction in the sum likely to be returned by the Commonwealth. The Premier foreshadowed a loan for reproductive works on the first favourable opportunity. Several measures which were before the Council at the time of the dissolution would be reintroduced. The programme of the Government includes electoral and land reform, including the compulsory purchase of large estates for settlement purposes ; workers' compensation, a SttteInsurance establishment, and a Government coal mine. If during his visit to New Zealand, the Minister for Lands (Hon. H. M'Kenzie) were shown any easier or better road to extensive productive land settlement, said the Premier, the Government would not hesitate to follow on the lines of the Dominion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3097, 21 January 1909, Page 5
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162VICTORIAN POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3097, 21 January 1909, Page 5
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