Part 21

Friendly societies and savings banks, individual efforts of labouring classes demonstrated by, 259

Frozen meat industry: Queensland: Distributing agencies, 80 Financial statement of 1896, 79 South Australia, receiving depot at Port Adelaide, 21 Victoria, State advances for, 148

Fysh, Hon. Sir P. O., 178

Gold-mining: Discovery of gold, effect of, on Australasian Democracy, 244 New South Wales, right of mining on private land obtained by Labour Party, 49 New Zealand goldfields, roads and water-races on, Government constructing, 105 Victoria, state encouragement 147 Western Australia: Coolgardie goldfields [see that title] Crown lands, miner's rights on acquiring, 165 Inducements offered to immigrants, 165

Goldstein, Colonel, Honorary Secretary of Leongatha Labour Colony, Victoria, 151

Government advances to Settlers Act, New Zealand, 99, 118

Government Architect Department of New South Wales--designer of Crown Lands office receiving less salary than principal messenger, 44

Government Railways Act of 1888, New South Wales, means of diminishing political pressure, 39

Graduated Death Duties, assessment of, in Australasia, 278

Great Britain: Closer union with, Australians' indifference to, 298 Friendly relations with, suggestions for maintaining, 298 Ill-feeling towards, causes of, 296 Sympathy of the middle classes of Australia with, 297

Great Southern Railway, Western Australia, loan for purchase of, 163

Hobart, Premiers' conference on Federation of Australasia at, 227

Homesteads Act of 1893, Western Australia, free grants of land offered to settlers by, 166

Humanitarian Legislation in Queensland: Factory Act of 1896, 77 Labour Party's complaint, 74 Royal Commission of inquiry, 77

Immigration: Chinese Immigration Act of 1887, Tasmania restricting immigration of coloured races, 170 Consumptive persons, Bills forbidding immigration of, 295 State-aided immigration, workmen's objection to taxation for, 294, 295 Western Australian goldfields, inducements offered to immigrants, 165

Improved-farm settlements, system of in New Zealand, 111

Income tax: Assessment of in: New Zealand, 89 South Australia, 17 Tasmania, 181 Property and personal exertion incomes, difference between taxation of, 279

Industrial disputes, settling by conciliation [see title Arbitration and Conciliation]

Inter-provincial conference on Australasian Federation, 214

Irrigation and water supply works, Victoria: Failure of, 143 Inadequate preliminary investigations of, 145

Juvenile Depravity Suppression Bill, New Zealand, 203

Kalgoorlie, visit to, 310

Kanakas: Sugar cultivation in Queensland: Importation of Kanakas, question as to necessity of, 66 Number employed in, 64 Protection of, 63 Re-engaging after expiration of contracts, 64 Traffic in Kanakas decreasing population of Pacific Islands, 64

Kingston, Right Hon. C. C., 3, 16, 25

Knutsford, Lord, 57

Labour Bureau and Casual Labour Board for relieving unemployed in New South Wales, 45

Labour Parties: Legislative Councils attacked by, 273 New South Wales: "Caucus" meetings, 51 Electoral Reform policy, 49 Gold, right of mining on private land obtained by, 49 "Solidarity," vote of, 50 Tariff question, disagreement on, 49 Taxation of land values obtained by, 50 New Zealand, 263 Queensland: Electoral reform policy, 75 Failure of, 74 Grievances against Government, 74 New Zealand and South-Australian Labour Parties compared with, 73 Socialistic tendencies of, 73 South Australia: Development and work of, 3 Liberals working in connection with, 4, 263 Queensland Labour Party compared with, 74 Victoria, 263

Labouring classes: Building societies, labouring classes availing themselves of, 260 Condition of, on the whole satisfactory, 301 Foreign Competition: Great Britain, hostility towards in consequence of, 296 Labouring classes' opposition to, 293 Larrikinism of Melbourne and Sydney, exaggeration of, 301 Protection, labouring classes in favour of, 292 South Australian education, secular character of, effect on labouring classes, 32 Thriftiness of, 258