WESTRALIAN POLITICS.
[BY ELECTBIO TELEQEAFH —COPYRIGHT j [PEB PEESB ASSOCIATION.] PERTH, This Day.—The Premier delivered a policy speech at Bunbury last night. He anticipated that the year would end with a deficit of £llß,000. He proposed retrenchment and a tax on unimproved land values with the object of breaking up the large estates, as well as gaining additional revenue. The details of the tax have not yet been decided on. The Government intended to amend the land laws to make it compulsory for progressive improvements to bo made on conditional blocks. The provisions of the Agricultural Bank will be liberalised to assist suitable men possessed only of determination and muscle. The question of immigration with a view to attracting suitable settlers was receiving special attention, and the Cabinet intended to ask authority to raise a loan of from £1.000,000 to £1,250,000 for agricultural, railway development, land settlement, and other works. They would keep the expenses down to an absolute minimum. The retrenchment proposals include the reduction of Ministers' salaries from £IOOO to £BOO.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1906, Page 3
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