NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13087, 22 April 1911, Page 4

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

THE GOVERNMENT'S PRO-

GRAMME;

STATE INSURANCE

(.United Tress Association.]

Sydney t April 2ii

Mi' Holmitri', State Attorney-Ueneral Speaking at Gundagai, outlined the Government programme, comprising a vigorous land development policy; the building of railways; the advance of settlement; the sub-division of lands tli'.ts Bpeiiij'cl iip ft)r settlement; the duplication of the main lines of railway ; a new Arbitration Bill, reorganisation of publio finances-, whioh would tra placed oil ti businesslike footing-; the openiitg or Strife Wai mnies to Supply railways. More taxation was foreshadowed, the burden thereof to be put on the backs of those best able to bear it. He said that the linking of the city with North Sydney by means of tunnels would receive immediate^ attention, The question of extinguishing the State debt would be vigorously faced, and it was intended to establish.a new Lrtboiir Department with 'pie.object, <)f keeping workers acquainted with State industrial conditions. He foreshadowed a new Workmen's Compensation Ant, getting rid Of. the present restriction t8 £200 benefit far workmen permanently injured. Mr Holman also referred to the establishment of model suburbs as workmen's homes, a wide reaching prison.law, education reforms, and the encouragement of co-operative meat works;

Mr Carmichaol, Assistant Treasurer, advocating a Slate insurance scheme, declared thai NW ZeolniKlAs Sfctitp.lns'uranee, taken from the point of view of the general public and insurers, was emphatically a success. It might be that the State Department had not much to distribute in profits, but the effect had been A reduction (if premiums l>y all the companies (which would hardly be called institutions), thus saving the general public nearly £250,000 per annum.

The, Australian Natives' Association Conference approved of the referenda and also a uniform giuigo in trunk railways for defence purposes: