QUEENSLAND POLITICS
ELECTION CAMPAIGN. PREMIER’S POLICY SPEECH. fPrese Jciation —By Telegraph—Copyright.) BRISBANE. April 10. The Premier (Mr W. M’Ccrmack), in his policy speech at Cairns, after comparing the financial position of Queensland with that of other States, claimed that the State’s credit was very sound. He stated that the Government was endeavouring to increase the area of forest plantations and to regenerate the hardwood forests. He forecasted widows’ and orphans’ pension schemes, and an “xtension of the motherhood and child walfare schemes to the large centres. The Government intended to increase the payments to injured workers to the full rate of the wage earned, but not exceeding the basic rate, and also to increase payments to workers suffering-from miner’ phthisis and other occupational diseases. It was also intended to provide workers’ homes and dwellings on a more generous scale. The Government was prepared, if the Commonwealth Government would co-operate financially, lo assist the development of the cotton Industry.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 9
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