STATE ELECTIONS

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 134, 8 June 1910, Page 5

STATE ELECTIONS

33T HEW SOUTH WALES. LIBSBAL POLICY OUTLINED. (Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The State Premier, Mr. "Wade, in a speech at Chatswood, outlined the Gov- ;< ernment policy. Tiie principal features were : Opening up of lands, lands resumed totalling 170,000 acres were ready to be placed before Parliament, and an additional quarter of a million acres would be ready shortly, the Lands Department to be reformed in order to remove congestion and make settlement easier, the 3 railway system to be improved by duplication and cross-country lines, the flota--3 tion of a special loan of two millions locally for the purpose of internal de- >' velopment. education (both primary and secondary) to be made entirely free and high schools established throughout the v country, long distance freights to be re--5 duced to the extent of £20.000. and police 1 fay to be increased by 6d a day. The proposals also include a referen--1 dum for the reduction of the number of 3 members of Parliament, and reforming , the Legislative Council. No additional 5 taxation is proposed. 5 Mr. Wade announced that the Govern- - ment had appointed a commission to inquire into the question of railway decentralisation.