Wellington, June 27.
In a speech at the opening of Parliament, Mr. Thomas Mackenzie, the Premier, outlined the policy of the new Ministry as comprising light railways, numerous land proposals, agricultural colleges, additional perimental farms, reciprocity with Australia, differentiation between earned and unearned incomes, the reduction of the age for women's old age pensions to sixty, trust legislation and ce-operative banks for farmers.
Gilbert Parker (C. Gravesend) complained of the constitution of the Imperial Trade Commission and of the exclusion from its consideration of Imperial preference. He accordingly moved a reduction of the vote.
The motion was rejected by 200 votes to 112.
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