QUEENSLAND'S SAD PLIGHT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17730, 2 December 1919, Page 3

QUEENSLAND'S SAD PLIGHT.

LABOUR 31ISGOVKfiNMEXT.

(Per Press Association.) ' DUXEDIN. Nor. 30

"Th-» Labour Party in New Zealand | had also lieen speaking a^oui what they J tailed the better conditions of Lie if. Quesur'and under a Labour Government and -the poop'o hud heard so much about it that.they had not questioned it Tlierf h.id bfen revelations lately, howevor, Queensland, which was one ■of the. wea'thiest States in Australia, v.as in a. very serious fiuaucial position. For ei^hl years prior to 1915-16 the State dlio'.ved surpluses, but during the last thr«« ven.vs the average deficit-had been £270.000. It lisirl been shown.; too, U at the cost of living there was higher than in am other eo-mtry south of the line Fuither. in four years there n.td heon a less of over ir million on the railways. The Government had bought 2;> stations, and on twelve of them a loss was -shown, while the..whole of the .-UTomrs, jvhen lumped, showed-u 'ass. The State trawler last voar caught fish costing .€2230, and realised £13S. The boasted Slate public house was not Ion;? in being swamped, and ihe State farms had produced a loss. (A voice: Drought!) Quereslanrt had not been suffering from it-ought for four years. Jfc was 'srjftering from the Parliamentary Labour Paiiy."