N.S.W. PARLIAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 155, 1 July 1914, Page 5

N.S.W. PARLIAMENT.

COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMME \ I SETTLEMENT AND SEA—TH. ' 1 SYDNEY, June 30. The State Premier (Mr. W. A. Hoi- 1 man) delivered a policy speech at Coota- ' i mundra to-day. He outlined a most i oomprehensive programme of legislation ' ) for the coming session, including the • spending of many additional millions. ' The policy includes extending, dupli- ' • eating and bringing the railways gen- J • orally up' to date. The building of a • railway liridge to the North Shore is in- I eluded, ns is also the expenditure of an- ' ; other £200,000 in improving New- •' i castle Harbour. Irrigation and the opening up of Crown lands will also involve a large outlay. | Health measures on tlie lines suggested by the Auckland Medical Conference will include providing maternity hospitals. , and dealing with consumption, venereal , diseases and insanity. , Mr. Hoi ma v announced his intention » to enter upon a new immigration policy ( » similar to that adopted in New V.c i- ! land. Rather than assist to increase . f the weltering population of Sydney lie would prefer to sec the whole scheme , of assisted immigration disappear .altogether, lie proposes to establish a Stnto coal mine for railway supplies, to in- > crease the number of paid Ministers to ten. to amend the Constitution Act to ' make women eligible for election iv the '• State Parliament, to construed, an underground railway system in Sydney, to • issue gun liceaases as n check on the use of pen-rilies, to prohibit monopolies on necessities of life., to abolish the death sentence, to make illegal the publication of certain evidence, to amend the company law, and to establish State ironworks. A Greater Sydney Council will*" bo - created, and the present forty-two potty 5 municipalities abolished. Mr. llolman " has framed a new Building Act for the " City and Town Planning Act for the country. Mr. llolman announced that he iii- '" tended to increase the number of Eail--1 wnv Commissioners to four. Mr. llolman declared that strikes were s barbarous and wasteful. The workers 5 would have to make up their minds whether they would have arbitration or "j strikes: they were unable to have liotli. | But the Government would not force j arbitration upon those unwilling to share its benefits.