PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 339 
motto, “One people, one destiny,” we will awake to the sense 
of what hes before us, and the important part railway labour 
has to play in it. 
The annual railway revenue of our seven colonies is 
£11,000,000, half of which is paid away in wages. It may be 
said that for every quarter of a million pounds’ additional rail- 
way revenue a thousand extra men can be employed on the lines, 
while paying 4 per cent. interest on the capital investment. 
Besides the advantages to the trading community of the regular 
employment of these extra men, it “will be apparent that the 
people who contribute the rates and fares required to pay them 
are promoting a healthy activity in productive industry, the 
profits on which will enable both the State and the muni- 
cipality to lighten the burden of taxation, and to assist in 
improvements. These considerations will be accentuated by 
the promotion of inter-communication between all parts of the 
Continent, without the present fiscal restrictions, as provided 
for in the Federation Bill. | 
Further facilities for technical education are amongst the 
means to be used for fitting our Australian men for their 
increasing responsibilities. The secretarial and accountancy 
staff, and the various branches of the other departments, 
should also be induced to qualify in the best institutions 
for higher education by making promotion depend on this 
class of culture in combination with practical ability. Under 
such conditions our railway men will prove themselves fit te 
assist in the energetic development of the transport business of 
the federated colonies. 
14.—EXPERIMENT FARMS. 
By W. Farrer, B.A. 
15.—THE MINIMUM VOTING AGE 
By H. K. Ruspen. 
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