My Government considers that: the time has come to submit fudiclal settlement the international
in coniliet with raga tsputes in which the parties are Yespective rights. "For'this. purpose it fs now consulting my Gove ments of tke Dominions and the Gorernment of India with regard te the signing of the optional clause embodied in the Statute of the Permanent Court of Internationsl Tustice.
My Government is examining the relations the Government conditions under which diplomatic
the Union of Suviet Republics may be resumed, and is communicate with my Governments of the Dor ions and the Government of India thereanent.
It willie the foremost endeavour of my Ministers to deal effectively with the continuing evil of unemployment. Schemes are being prepared for the improve. ment of means of transport for the stimulation of the depressed expo trades, for the economic develop, ment of my overseas Dependencic:, for the improvement of the condition of agriculture, the encoura ment of the fishing industry -and for the improvement of the facilities for marketing farm and fishery outputs.
With the ce-operation of my Governments of the Dominions, mea sures are being considered with the object of providing greater opp tunities for overseas migration, ing liquor and, on their recommettlation, I propose shortly to appoint commissioners for this purpose.
More Electoral Reform?
My Ministers are engaged in general survey of the various 1. tional insurance and pensions schemes, Meanwhile a Bill is being prepared to amend the widows amd orphans Old Age Pensions act "of 1925 so as to modify the conditions applicable to certain pensions ard to make some increase in the classes of persons entitled thereto. measure will be introduced' remedy the situation eve ated by: the trade disputes and Trades Unions Act of 1927.
The extended franchise at the recent veneral election has placed in the hands of the whole of -my people of adult years the grave tes ponsibility of guarding the wel being: of the Nation as a Constitutional democracy. My Government proposes to institute an examination. into the experiences of the election in order that the working of th law relating to Parliamentary etection may be brought into cotiformity with the new-conditions,
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