FEDERAL ELECTION.
BRUCE OPENS CAMPAIGN. PLANKS IN HIS PLATFORM. (Received October 9, 12.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Oct. S. The Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, opened tho general election campaign at Dandenong this evening. His declaration of policy included the following:— Tho maintenance of a White Australia; the carrying out, as far as may be financially possible, the air policy recommended by Air Marshal Sir John Salmond, for the first three years; the reorganisation of tho Tariff Board s functions ; the repeal of tho coastal clauses of the Navigation Act; steps toward the unification of railway gauges; a comprehensive scheme of national insurance and unemployment insurance to bo carried out by the States. Mr.'Jock Garden, secretary of the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council, intends to oppose Mr. E. G. Theodore for the Dallcy seat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20072, 9 October 1928, Page 11
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