A DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10499, 6 July 1910, Page 4

A DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Per , Press Association.)

Received July 5, at 9.35 p.m. Adelaide, July 5. : . In the Assembly Mr Verran outlined, the Government's policy, which includes adult suffrage for the Legislative Council elections, a progressive land tax. compulsory repurchase of land for closer settlement, factory, and workmen's compensation bills, establishment of high schools, and a bill to enable the Government to make advances'to workers to build themselves homes. The public works include railway extension and the erection of two locks on the Murray river. He hoped the. federal Parliament would accept the Northern Territory Transfer Bill, as the only alternative would be to repudiate it altogether.