NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.
PARKES' NEWJPROGRAMi
(Per Pbess Absooiatlon.)
~ .:;-... Suney; Jane 2&. .. Sir H. farkcs the meet'ing -of the Federal Party evening, at which the programme adopted to make federation.a con-? stant and supreme object of political life in the future, and to foster the idea that the National Government should be invested with the solei ■ • power to impose customs duties. The other planks adoptedwerepromotion of domestic legislation to ad-: , vance the internal interests of the colony, abolition of patronage combined with economy in the civil service, prevention of the. influx of inferior races.
An explanatory note added that in the matter of taxation the accom- .. plishment of federation will compel a resort to direct taxation for the purposes, of the State Government in-"'" supplementation ;of the iproportional' sums received from the federal ens- r toms revenue. • .•; Meantime other matters of more ; urgency to meet the. wants of the '« people demand immediate attention. A .strong committee was formed atditwas decided to make federation- • a feature of the elections,
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8162, 29 June 1895, Page 2
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168NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8162, 29 June 1895, Page 2
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