WEST AUSTRALIA.
VIGOROUS POLICY PKOJIISED. By Teles ra»fc—Press Association—Copyrient Perth,- August 21. Tho State Premier (Air. Frans Wilson) has delivered a poiicy' speech. 'I he Premier's proposals include the construction of a dozen railways to open up the country. Two hundred farms, ranging in area from a hundred and sixty to three hundred acres, are to he offered to settlers, the Government providing dairy buildings and cattle. A quarter of a million is to bo devoted to advances; up to bESCO for workers' homes in the towns. A vigorous immigration policy is to bo continued. The Arbitration Act is to bo repealed, and wages boards substituted. The land tax and Dividend Duties Act will be repealed, and replaced by income and stoelc taxes. Tho State financial year closed with a surnltis nf ,f.l3.n»G. The deficit of .£102.000 at' the besrinmn? nf the year hns hrpri wipe-' off. despite the decreased Federal returns.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1212, 22 August 1911, Page 5
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