S. AFRICAN POLITICS.
GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAMME.
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT* Reutei*. CAPETOWN. July 25. The Assembly met this morning. Mr. Jansen being unanimously elected Speaker. Parliament was opened, in the afternoon by the Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone. In his speech he said the session was merely lor passing the Estimates and minor legislative measures considered urgent. Inter alia, the Government would repeal the tax on patent medicines, and amend the tobacco tax, which contributed to the downfall, of the Smuts Government. The Government would also reenact retrospectively the Act controlling rents, which had expired.
The speech referred to the growing distress caused by unemployment, drought, and locusts, provision for which should be wade.
A Department of Labour had heen inaugurated to remedy the continued widespread unemployment, the encouragement of industrial and agricultural development, and the careful establishment of land settlement.
The estimated expenditure for the current year is £24,346,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18772, 28 July 1924, Page 7
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