NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.
' PREMIER'S POLICY SPEECH, >' ' ARBITRATION ACT TO BE ';;.;. REPEALED. WAGES BOARDS SUBSTITUTED. ' $y Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. '- t •- (Received May 10, 1.15 a.m.) Sydney, May 9. '••,:•", Mr- CABBtTTnEKS speaking at Rockdale ?=; to-day, outlined the Government's policy.. .■•' The chief points were: Income tax arising - ■ from personal exertions to *be remitted, i • and dividends substituted; the remaining I portion of the income tax an<s stamp duty 7 '"' to be remitted to the extent of £130,000; railway charges to be lowered by \ ~£250,000, with a further reduction on country lines to the extent of £130,000; ' total remissions proposed £720,000; anew portfolio of agriculture is to be created 1 "'&■, big scheme of land resumption and i closer settlement is' to be carried out; and ■:.';.' the Arbitration Bill to be repealed and a 'Wages Bill substituted for it. He proposed to take a referendum on the questions of ; ; the Federal capital site and-reduction of members of the Assembly from 90 to 50.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13484, 10 May 1907, Page 5
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