PARLIAMENTS OPENED

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 4, 5 July 1922, Page 5

PARLIAMENTS OPENED

ECONOMIC DISORDER REMEDIES FOR N.&-W.. ftINUW PRESS ASSOCIATION.—OOnitKHH.) ; . SYDNET, 4th July. The ■ first session of the new Parliament opened to-day. The Governor's -Speech referred to the unsettled economic conditions and the disorganisation of many great State industries, and the (necessity to adjust Capital and Labour affaire to meet the situation. He stated that the Government was determined to Ao its utmost to relieve the industrial conditions by stimulating private enterprise, restoring a sound basis for both' production and trade measures. The Government promised to include in its legislation an amendment of the State industrial arbitration laws and to repeal the Profiteering Prevention and Fair Rents Acts, the promotion ofs immigration and settlement of both Crown land and'private estates, a policy of decentralisation, the providing of railways between inland centres and the nearest ports, the establishment of a marketing bureau to deal with exportable products, improving the living conditions of country dwellers and soldier settlers, the employment of returned soldiers and sailors, and the continuation of the construction of a city railway. Parliament would be given an opportunity of deciding the question of the construction of the North Shore Bridge. Taxation proposals include fenperseding the super-tax by a more equitable system. The Speech declared that the Fair Rents Act tended to limit building.