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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 191e, 1926
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COSTLY LESSONS IN AUSTRALIA.
"EXPENDITURE IN. QUEENSLAND
AND TASMANIA.
[BY JAMES LUMADËN.]
MELBOURNE Is the question "Can Labour Govern Pa answered by the experience of Queens
·land ?
If it is, then the answer is a dost un- qualified no. Thers, for the rest of the world to contemplate, is government by and for one interest-a system the re- verse of that ideal of democracy which prevailed in Britain at the time when all the Parliaments, of the British Dominions took shape.
In Queensland Labour does not profess or pretend to govern save in the interests of Labour.
PASTOR SHOOTS RICH MAN."
6,000 HEAR ITS SERMON NEXT-
DAY.
'FEUD WITH MAYOR -
NEw York. July 19th. From the pulpit situated only 50ft. from the spot where 24 hours before ho had shot and killed Mr. D. E. Chipps, one of the richest citizens of Fort Worth, Texas, the Dev. J. Frank Norris yesterday addressed the largest congrega. tign in the history of the Baptist church whore he has officiated for 20 years.
There is scating accommodation for 6.000 and every seat was occupied, while the building was surrounded by motor- cars 4s well as by people unable to gaia
admittance.
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Mr. Norris, a tali, athletic man, ex plained that he killed Mr. Chipps, one of his mest bitter critics, in self-defence.. He had been declaiming from the palpit and in the columns of his magazine, Searchlight, for weeks against the alleged corruption of the Mayor of Fort Worth, Mr. H. C. Meacham, head of the city's largest shops...
A strang feature of Queensland palities is the impotence that seems to have overtaken the non-Labour sections of the electorate: For oßcial "Labour
When the pastor added in addresses secured and retains away without do actual broadcast throughout the State of Texas, majority of votes. It retained in the allegations accusing the mayor of being clections just concluded a majority of photographed with a girl dressed in a fourteen seats secure working majority bathing suit, the mayor, summoned six in the one-chamber Legislature-but the members of the church either to leave noa-Labour partics polled a very con- the church or his employ. They left his siderable majority of votes.
employ,
Enormous Public Debt.
The McCormack Labour Ministry's victory means a further spell of adminis tration of the State's finances by Labour for Labour and Labour has already ruled for 10 years.
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Mr. Norris states that Mr. Chipps came tabim-from the mayor and made re. peated threats. He believed that Mr. Chipps was about to attack him, so he took a revolver from a drawer and fired four shots at him. Mr. Chipps died in the ambulance in which he was being taken to hospital.
Ho describes himself as a "hellfire and damnation preacher." Once his church. was burned. He was tried and acquitted af charges of arson
One would have thought that the Labour achievements of a decade woul
Mr. Norris surrendered to the policr have been a sufficient warning. In 1915 en a charge of murder and was release i the debt of the State was 237,000, when members of his church furnished to-day it is £87,000,000) During the 100,000 bail. years of Labour rule taxation has risen from £954,000 to £3,914,000. That in ercase, it may be explained, is not due to the Great War. for war finance belongs to the sphere of Federal politics. Be- fore the Socialist régime the railways, which belong to the State, showed a prost of £48,000-not much, perhaps, but truly magnificent when contrasted with the accumulated deficit of £12,370,000 which is the" almost incredible feat of Labour. Though the population has in- crease by only 15 per cent., during ive years the interest on the State Debt has increased by 60 per cent.
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Alexandra Buildings.
Let it not be supposed that all this State expenditure is offset by a bounding expansion in the general wealth of the! province. Australia does flourish, cer! tainly. Wealth is everywhere increasing, as wealth invariably does in a peaceful; country; even if not blessed with the great resources, the fertility, and the luxuriant climate of Australia. Queens) land is a vast territory with a great range in latitude inrical, sub-tropical and temperate. No part of the British Empire is more pehly endowed by a Complete Service of Original Nature. It can produce almost daything. Copy, Ideas, and Designs for
Fet during the past decade nearly Posters and Blocks," 24,000,000 acres of land have gone out of occupation. That period has synchronis "ed with the Labour administration.
Each succeeding Labour Ministry has had a programme for the primary producer but all the special legislation has been neutralised by the insistent rise in the cost of labour, a rise which, hits the farmer in a thousand and one ways quite irrespective of wages for work on the
land,
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Another Australia State whose affairs...that being independent, can have reached a turning point in Tas- mania. The Government of that pro-place all this knowledge and vince found it necessary to appeal to the experience at the free disposal of Federal Government for inancial,relief. its Cliente, ensuring that the The State begged for £345,000 to tide 10
over its financial difficulties, and the money they spend on Advertising Commonwealth has, alter a long inquiry, will bring them the best possible
of relief return. granted certain measures amounting to £478,000, terms considered exceedingly generous, though the duration. of the generosity is to be for two years only..
Lasmania is one of the oldest of the Australian settlements. In the "19th century Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land as it was at first called, was looked upon as the garden of the Southern Hemis phere. It is a land of great beauty and has a most delightful climate. It was the orchard owner's paradise. Its apples were world famous,
Why has it long since passed its cul- mination? Between 1001 and 1523 the area under crop only increased from £24,000 acres to 208,000, though during that period the area for the whole of Australia almost doubled. Twenty years ago Tasmania exported nearly a million bushels of wheat to England. For several years past the total annual production has been less than half a million The Victorian Director of Agriculture who was, seat to investigate matters found thou sands of acres of fertile plain once under the plough now Back to prairie end through neglect incapable of sustaining proper growth of much of the stock graz ing on it."
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A distinguished Tasmanian, in com- menting upon the problem, says: How under present conditions can more ef our pastoral and agricultural lands be developed? What prospect is there of an alteration-7-We have expensive und extravagant commissions already com. posed, and some still at the embryo stages with all the beads at enormous awelling in volume prosperity is not salaries to do their share in spending evenly distributed. One cause. for that large sums to increase our fearful debt."
is the exhaustion of most of the old gold- Outside Tasmanian governmental fields, and the somewhat tardy develop circles nobody on the island or the main ment of commerce and industry whose land is very hopeful that at the end of riches aro more lasting than gold dig the two years of Federal financial assist kings Australia has likewise been anec the island State will be started on affected in various ways by the general a new career of prosperity.
world impoverishment caused by the Tasmania, however, is not the only spot war.
in Australia which is suffering from de- But no small section of the Australian cadence. As we have seen, the land public is of the opinion that the Tus under occupation in Queensland has gone manian malady is more or less prevalent back, and in many other quarters this all over the continent. They think there 1a a period of marking time. While the are too many legislators and adminis grand total of Australian-wealth is ever trators. Some even think there are too
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