NEW SOUTH WALES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3200, 22 April 1911, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

PROGRAMME OF LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

(UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.* SYDNEY, April 21. Mr Holman, Acting-Premier of New South Wales, at Gundagai, outlined the Government programme, comprising A vigorous land development policy, building railways and advance of settlement, subdivision of' lands thus opened for settlement, duplicating of main lines of railway, a new Arbitration Bill, re-or-ganisation of t-he public finances, which should be placed on a business-like footing. tlie opening of State coal mines to supply the railways. More taxation was foreshadowed, the burden thereof to be put on the backs of those best able to bear it. Tlie linking of the city with North Sydney by means of tunnels is to receive immediate attention. The question of extinguishing the State debt is to be vigorously faced. It is intended to establish a new Labour Department with the object of keeping the workers acquainted with the state of the industrial conditions. ' He foreshadows’ a new Workmen’s Compensation Act, getting rid of the present restrictions to £2OO benefit for workmen permanently injured. The Government will propose the establishment of model suburbs as . workmen’s homes. There will be a wide-reaching prison law, and education reforms and encouragement of co-operative meat works.