C.P. Policy Announced By McEwen  Shepparton (Vic.). Thursday. The government’s policies clearly showed its objective of growth, the Leader of the Country Party and Minister for Trade, Mr J. McEwen, said tonight. . The Government aimed at essentials, at production from not just words, he said. Mr McEwen was opening the Country Party’s campaign in the Federal election. He said the Labour Party had copied the Country Parry Policy for a lower uniform price for petrol in the country. Opening his speech Mr McEwen said the Country Party and the government were dedicated to continue the development of an expanding nation with a free and prosperous people.  More Vehicles, Production. While the Government had been in office, population had increased by three million; 700000 more jobs had been made available, vehicle production had reached 1000 new cars a day and farmers were producing half as much again. Land, mining and forest industries were thriving, real wealth had been produced and turned into development works. These are not promises for an election, Mr McEwen said. This is the record of what we have done. This is real growth, the result of deliberate, constructive policies. Mr McEwen said the government had declared for its objective a growth to lift Australia's economy by 25 per cent over the next five years. We aim at essentials, he said. A good price in the home market, protection against damaging imports, international agreements, negotiations for markets, strong sales promotion, an unceasing drive to increase efficiency and £9 m a year will be available to pay £3 m a ton subsidy on superphosphate. A complete transformed wool industry in a position to contrive its own policies in which the government would give assistance. Woolgrowers were highly efficient but huge expenditures in research had helped them to come close to doubting their production since the war.  Wool promotion. As a new policy we have accepted a charge of perhaps £5 m a year in matching £ for £ woolgrowers spending on sales promotion, Mr McEwen said. We negotiated the entry of our beef into the American market. Our beef herds are worth more than £100 m above what they would have been worth had we not gained entry into the American market. This is our policy at work. Growth with me is not just for a policy speech, not just a word to get votes. Mr McEwen said that if policies did not influence the location of industry and population, by the time Australia had 20 million people, 10 million would be in Sydney and Melbourne. To the country Party this was intolerable and for Australia it was dangerous.  New States Proposal  The creation of new states in appropriate areas would represent a major contribution to decentralisation. Fourteen years ago only £8m had been granted to the States for roads. Now not less than an average of £70m would be provided each year for roads for the next five year, in addition to money for beef roads. If we are elected, nowhere in Australia is petrol to cost more than 4d a gallon above the city price, and the policy will be the same for kerosene and distillate, Mr McEwen said. I stated my policy on this early this year at Country Party conferences and now Labour has copied it. Mr McEwen said that because they knew it would be bad for Australia, he and his party had opposed a proposal to redistribute seats which would have deprived Western Australia, Queensland and N.S.W. each of a seat and abolished country electorates. The Government would amend electoral Acts to avoid these States losing seats.  Secure grip on Home Markets. Our secondary industries must be secure, Mr McEwen said. To grow and to obtain export markets they must have a secure grip in the home market. We will ensure they are protected, particularly from dumping. We have devoted ourselves to the cause of manufacturing industry. Our policies have provided export insurance, encouraged and subsidised new shipping services to carry our exports, our Trade commissioner Service had extended across the world, trade publicity expenditure has increased by £1m a year, we have effective tax incentives for exporters, trade ships, trade fairs and trade missions. There is real partnership in this country between industries. Secondary industries save Australia foreign exchange by supplying goods which we must otherwise import, but they are also our greatest importers. Primary industries, long our main source of export income, earn foreign change needed by secondary industry, but the primary industries depend for their best market on the employees of secondary industry. Our policies are @ around this interdependence.  Labour Plans Battle Group At Grafton.  Grafton, Thursday. A new battle group of 2000 men to be raised under Labour’s defence plan would be located in northern N.S.W., probably at Grafton, the leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr A.A. Calwell said tonight. He was speaking at an election meeting in the Presbyterian Hall, Grafton, in of the support of the Labour candidate, Mr F. W. McGuren. Mr. McGuren won the northern rivers’ seat of Cowper at the 1961 election from Sir Earle Page, who had held the seat for the Country Party since 1919. Mr Calwell said Labour’s proposal for an additional 14000 men for the regular army included a policy of decentralisation because too much of Australia’s defence system was concentrated in the far south.  Decentralisation Policy. Labour intended placing brigade groups of 6.000 men @ in Queensland, South and Western Australia. Labour’s defence committee, which had drawn up these proposals over the past two years, had pointed out that a headquarters needed transport facilities and water and Grafton would be a logical location. Mr Calwell said that a Labour Government would make a payment at least equal to the unemployment benefit to farmers temporarily deprived of their livelihood by bushfires, floods or drought. Australia was the most centralised nation in the world, Mr Calwell said. Only a Federal Government had power to raise the money needed for thoroughgoing decentralisation.  Petrol Price Reduction. As part of its decentralisation plans, Labour had allocated £10m a year to bring the price of petrol in country areas to parity with city prices. Some days later the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, announcing a similar plan, had allocated £7m for the purpose. Mr Calwell said that this presumably meant that the Prime Minister's plan allowed for partial parity only. He said a statement last night by the Treasurer, Mr H.E. Holt, that the economy is now running in top gear was a damaging admission that Australia had no hope of doing better. In the September quarter the number of new houses and flats begun had risen by 16 per cent but this was only a fraction more than the number begun in the September quarter of 1960.  Tariff Board Streamlining. Mr Calwell said Labour would strengthen and streamline the Tariff Board to prevent delays in tariff decisions that could ruin an industry. It would ensure that if there was a doubt on whether an industry needed protection the industry would always be given the benefit of the doubt. Labour would not hesitate to impose import controls if other protective devices failed.