INTERCOLONIAL.
THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN.
GOVERNMENT POLICY.
Press Association, Electric Telegraph, Copyright, Received August 24,10 a.m. Melboubne, August 24, The Premier, speaking at Nhill, enumerated the Government policy and made a passing reference to the strike. The Government had been enabled to regain over its own servants the control that it bad well nigh lost. He expressed a hope that the Railway Commissioners would extend to the men such reasonable treatment as would reconciliate them to the ohange in their pesition. The work o£ the Goverment, however, would not be completed until it had taken such steps as would save the community from a recurrence of such a catastrophe. Referring to the future, the Government had arrived at the conclusion that in the interests of the State the prinoiple of compulsory purchase should be adopted with un< alienated Crown lands not suitable for closer settlement. There were two million aoros of good agricultural land ready for ploughing now devoted to grassing, and served by railways, which should be resumed and settled by farmers who were now squeezed out of Victoria. The Government proposed to purchase land and sell the freehold to farmers, payable in small instalments extending over a large number of years.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 199, 24 August 1903, Page 2
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202INTERCOLONIAL. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 199, 24 August 1903, Page 2
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