HERTZOG'S POLICY
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. CONTEMPLATED LEGISLATION. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) CAPETOWN, July 25. The Assembly met this morning. Mr Jansen was unanimously elected Speaker.. Parliament was opened in the afternoon by the Governor-General's speech which stated that the (session was intended merely for the passing of estimates and minor legislative measures considered urgent. Inter alia, the Government would repeal the tax on patent medicines and amend the to- j bacco tax, which contributed to the downfall of the Smuts Government, and also re-enact retrospectively the Act controlling rents, which expired on June 30.- The speech referred to the growing distress caused by undrought, locusts, provision for which was made in the estimates. A Department of Labour would be inaugurated to remedy the continued widespread unemployment and the encouragement of industrial and agricultural development and the careful establishment of land settlement. The estimated expenditure for the current year is £24,346,000.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10169, 26 July 1924, Page 5
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