AUSTRALIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16231, 29 March 1917, Page 8

AUSTRALIA.

AVAR IN POLITICS. SENATE VERSUS HOUSE. MR HUGHES'S POLICY. (.Vm.tra/jan and N.Z. Cable Assn.) MELBOURNE, March 28. Delivering a. policy speech at Bendigo, | Mr Hughes said that the Anzac-vote at j the-conscription referendum was 72,ii00 I for and 58,000 against. The Government was forced to go io the country by the bitter, reckless hostility of file Senate. If l-oturned the Government would not force conscription on the people, hut if the national safety de-. manded it the question.,would again bo! referred to the people. Referring to the whoat pool, he said ! that to date they Lad sold G,100,000 tons. Of this, 2.014,000 had been sent oversea, and 3,185,000 sold but not yet shipped.; The Government now extended its guarantee to 4s a bushel to farm- I ers for the .1918-19 crop. , The repatriation scheme would in- ' volve an expenditure of thirty-two millions, twenty-two iniliions of which he proposed to raise by loans and the remainder by a tax on incomes spread over a series of wars. The same facilities for land settlement would be given to British as to Australian soldiers, fie intended to follow the example of Britain i nrega.rd to the importations Of luxuries and to give effect to a policy io enable them to keep the wealth otf the country within the country and the Empire. Ho concluded by saying that' many opponents onenlv hostile to Britain were clamouring for a premati've pence, caring for nothing but their own selfish and narrow interests. I

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