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<date>1935-11-29</date>
<parliament.no>14</parliament.no>
<session.no>1</session.no>
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<chamber>REPS</chamber>
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<para class="block">House of Representatives. </para>
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<day.start>1935-11-29</day.start>
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<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker (Hon. G. J. Bell)</inline>took the chair at 10.30 a.m., and read prayers. </para>
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<title>SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT</title>
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<para>Motion (by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Lyons)</inline> agreed to- </para>
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<para>That the House at its rising adjourn until Monday next, at 3 p.m. </para>
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<debate>
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<title>TARIFF BOARD REPORTS</title>
<page.no>2224</page.no>
<type>miscellaneous</type>
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<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. WHITE</inline>laid on the table reports and recommendations of the Tariff Board on the following subjects: - </para>
<quote>
<para>Aerial Cableways and Aerial Ropeways. </para>
<para>Air Compressors of the Reciprocating and Rotary Types having a displacement of 200 cubic feet and over per minute. </para>
<para>Antimony and Antimonial and Lead Compounds. </para>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>Bath Slippers</title>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
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<para>Bottles, Flasks, Jars, &c; and Thermometers, n.e.i. Empty Glass Tubes up to and including 3 drams fluid capacity. </para>
<para>Brass, Britannia Metal, Bronze, Gorman Silver, Gilding Metal, Nickel Silver, Phosphor Tin, Yellow Metal and other Nonferrous Alloys not elsewhere included in the Customs Tariff. </para>
<para>Carbon Manufactures of all kinds, including Carbon Blocks. </para>
<para>Furniture as covered by Item 305. </para>
<para>Gears for Motor Vehicles other than Railway and Tramway Vehicles, viz.: - Crown Wheels and Pinions, Transmission Gears, Differential Gears, Worms and Worm Wheels, Internal Tooth Gears, Jack Shaft Pinions and Flywheel Starter Bands. </para>
<para>Gentlemen's Hunting Pocket Watch Cases and Gentlemen's Open Face Pocket Watch Cases; -Wristlet Watches and cases therefor except Nickel-plated, Nickel Alloy, Chromium-plated and Steel. </para>
<para>Packings, viz. : - Engine and Machinery Gland, Piston and Plunger, consisting principally of Woven Fabric and Rubber vulcanized and without Metal. </para>
<para>Perambulators and Go-carts and Bodies therefor; Wheels and Parts (excepting Parts of Malleable Cast Iron) of Wheels for Perambulators and Go-carts. </para>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>Portland Cement</title>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
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<para>Wood-working Machinery. </para>
<para>Ordered tobe printed. </para>
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</debate>
<debate>
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<title>MEAT EXPORT CONTROL BILL 1935</title>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
<type>bill</type>
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<page.no>2225</page.no>
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<electorate>WAKEFIELD, SOUTH AUSTRALIA</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">HAWKER, Charles</name>
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<para>- Can the Minister for Commerce indicate when the Meat Export Control Bill, which recently passed both Houses of this Parliament, will become operative? </para>
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<page.no>2225</page.no>
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<electorate>COWPER, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
<party>CP</party>
<role>Minister for Commerce</role>
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<name role="metadata">PAGE, Earle</name>
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<para>- Before this legislation can become operative the Australian Meat Board has to be constituted, and this necessitates a conference between the Minister for Commerce and the meatexporting interests. As soon as that conference can be held, the board will be constituted, and the act will come into operation. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>MOCK BOMBING OF CANBERRA</title>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
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<talker>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JUQ</name.id>
<electorate>DARLING, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">CLARK, Joseph</name>
<name role="display">Mr CLARK</name>
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<para>- It is reported that units of the Royal Australian Air Force are to make an attack on Canberra next week, using " dummy " bombs. Will the Minister for Defence instruct that a few live bombs be used with the object of startling the Government into some semblance of activity? </para>
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<talker>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">SPEAKER, Mr</name>
<name role="display">Mr SPEAKER</name>
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<para>- Order ! The question is one which should not be asked. </para>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KXQ</name.id>
<electorate>WARRINGAH, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
<party>UAP</party>
<role>Minister for Defence</role>
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<name role="metadata">PARKHILL, Robert</name>
<name role="display">Mr ARCHDALE PARKHILL</name>
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<para>- The honorable member need have no perturbation; he will be quite safe. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>NEWCASTLE STEEL WORKS</title>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KJQ</name.id>
<electorate>HUNTER, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">JAMES, Rowland</name>
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<para>- Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to the statement made by a delegate to the conference of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions in Melbourne that " at Newcastle the hectic rush by certain firms to prepare war materials was causing grave concern among the workers. In the last fifteen months, steel had been rolled for munitions under the supervision of the Defence Department officers." Is there any truth in that allegation ? </para>
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<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. ARCHDALE</inline>PARKHILL.When I read the statement I merely assumed that it referred to the improvement in relation to the production of steel which was taking place in the industry. Such improvement, I suggest, is to the advantage of the people of Australia, because it will be conducive to the establishment and conduct of many industries in which the higher grades of steel are essential. The assertion that there is hectic activity in the industry is quite without foundation. Whatever supervision is being exercised by the Defence ' Department is merely that which is ordinarily exercised when steel is being specially manufactured for its requirements. </para>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JOM</name.id>
<electorate>WEST SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">BEASLEY, John</name>
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<para>- Is the supervision any greater now than it has been at any time when the requirements of the Defence Department have been turned out? </para>
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<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<party>UAP</party>
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<name role="metadata">PARKHILL, Robert</name>
<name role="display">Mr ARCHDALE PARKHILL</name>
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<para>- I thought I had made it clear that the supervision is merely that which is ordinarily exercised when the requirements of the Defence Department are being met. Just as when boots are ordered, a departmental officer visits the manufacturing establishment to see that all the materials used are of the specified quality. </para>
</talk.start>
<continue>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2225</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KJQ</name.id>
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<name role="metadata">JAMES, Rowland</name>
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<para>- Have the Newcastle Steel Works any orders in hand for the Defence Department? </para>
</talk.start>
</continue>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. ARCHDALE</inline>PARKHILL.Yes, in connexion with the sloop. </para>
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</subdebate.1>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>WHEAT MARKETING SCHEME</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KFE</name.id>
<electorate>SWAN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA</electorate>
<party />
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">GREGORY, Henry</name>
<name role="display">Mr GREGORY</name>
</talker>
<para>- Has the Minister for Commerce any information to impart in regard to the possibility of a wheat marketing scheme being put in operation this year? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>C7E</name.id>
<electorate />
<party>CP</party>
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">PAGE, Earle</name>
<name role="display">Dr EARLE PAGE</name>
</talker>
<para>- I understand that the Legislative Assembly of Victoria passed last night a measure dealing with this matter. Similar legislation has already been passed by the Parliaments of New South Wales and Queensland, and I understand is being introduced either this or next week in the Parliaments of South Australia and Western Australia. </para>
</talk.start>
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</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>NORTH CHINA</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<para>Japanese Intrusion</para>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>L08</name.id>
<electorate>DALLEY, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
<party />
<role />
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<name role="metadata">ROSEVEAR, John</name>
<name role="display">Mr ROSEVEAR</name>
</talker>
<para>- Has the AttorneyGeneral yet been able to obtain information from League of Nations sources regarding the intrusion of Japanese troops into North China? Has the honorable gentleman been advised as to whether the League of Nations is to take action in the matter? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>N76</name.id>
<electorate>KOOYONG, VICTORIA</electorate>
<party>UAP</party>
<role>Attorney-General</role>
<in.gov>1</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">MENZIES, Robert</name>
<name role="display">Mr MENZIES</name>
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<para>- I refer to the answer which I gave to a question on this subject yesterday. No complaint has been made to the League of Nations; consequently no action has yet been taken by it. </para>
</talk.start>
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</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>PASSAGE OF ESTIMATES</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KUW</name.id>
<electorate>ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA</electorate>
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<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">STACEY, Fred</name>
<name role="display">Mr STACEY</name>
</talker>
<para>- Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to the statement in the <inline font-style="italic">Canberra Times</inline> this morning that under the operation of the guillotine and the closure Estimates providing for an expenditure of £24,000,000 were passed by the New South Wales Parliament yesterday in one hour, whereas this House occupied nine and a half hours, exclusive of the time devoted to the budget debate, in the passage of Estimates totalling £22,000,000? Has the right honorable gentleman any comment to make? </para>
</talk.start>
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<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>F4O</name.id>
<electorate>WILMOT, TASMANIA</electorate>
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<role>Prime Minister</role>
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<name role="metadata">LYONS, Joseph Aloysius</name>
<name role="display">Mr LYONS</name>
</talker>
<para>- I apologize for the slowness of this House compared with the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. Both the honorable member and the <inline font-style="italic">Canberra Times</inline> have overlooked the twelve additional hours which preceded the nine and a half hours referred to. </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
</subdebate.1>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>HARDY WILSON DRAWINGS</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KLM</name.id>
<electorate>MELBOURNE, VICTORIA</electorate>
<party />
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">MALONEY, William</name>
<name role="display">Dr MALONEY</name>
</talker>
<para>- Several of the splendid drawings so kindly presented to the nation by W. Hardy Wilson are not under glass. From experience I know that nothing is more destructive of art in the form of paintings, drawings or sketches, than exposure to the ravages of dust. Will you, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> mention this matter in the appropriate quarter so that action may be taken to repair the omission? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>10000</name.id>
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<party />
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">SPEAKER, Mr</name>
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</talker>
<para>- I venture no opinion in regard to the contention of the honorable member, but I shall bring the matter to the notice of the experts, of whom I presume there are some, on the Library Committee. </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
</subdebate.1>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>MOTOR REGISTRATION FEES</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JTY</name.id>
<electorate>BARKER, SOUTH AUSTRALIA</electorate>
<party>CP; LP from 1944; LCL from 1951; LP from 1954</party>
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">CAMERON, Archie</name>
<name role="display">Mr ARCHIE CAMERON</name>
</talker>
<para>- Will the Prime Minister state whether arrangements can be made to take up from the Commonwealth viewpoint at the next Premiers' Conference the very vexed question of the heavy motor registration fees which one State imposes upon visiting motorists from other States who happen to take persons sight-seeing? The practice is causing considerable trouble in South Australia and Victoria. </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>F4O</name.id>
<electorate />
<party>UAP</party>
<role />
<in.gov>1</in.gov>
<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">LYONS, Joseph Aloysius</name>
<name role="display">Mr LYONS</name>
</talker>
<para>- I undertake to give the matter consideration. </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
</subdebate.1>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>RIFLE CLUBS</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<para>Free Ammunition Issue</para>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KMZ</name.id>
<electorate>HERBERT, QUEENSLAND</electorate>
<party />
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">MARTENS, George</name>
<name role="display">Mr MARTENS</name>
</talker>
<para>- Will the Minister for Defence state whether a regulation has been issued, or advice has been sent out, to the effect that no free ammunition shall be made available to rifle clubs? </para>
</talk.start>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. ARCHDALE</inline>PARKHILL.There is no truth in that statement. As I have already explained, the regulation provides for the free issue of 100 rounds for the present, and for an additional quantity to be made available as soon as the reserves enable that to be done. </para>
</speech>
</subdebate.1>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA AIR MAIL SERVICE</title>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2226</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KOQ</name.id>
<electorate>MARTIN, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">MCCALL, William</name>
<name role="display">Mr McCALL</name>
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<para>- In view of the fact that the bi-weekly air mail service between London and Singapore has been operating for nearly three months, will the Minister representing the PostmasterGeneral indicate what steps have been taken to establish a duplicate service between Singapore and Darwin so that Australia may benefit from an acceleration of the service ? Further, will he state whether it is the intention of the department to speed up the delivery of overseas mails within Australia by increasing the internal service? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KXQ</name.id>
<electorate />
<party>UAP</party>
<role />
<in.gov>1</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">PARKHILL, Robert</name>
<name role="display">Mr ARCHDALE PARKHILL</name>
</talker>
<para>- The duplication of this service would not speed up deliveries in any way, nor would it be of material advantage to the people of Australia, excepting those who had sent a letter to Great Britain and desired an early reply. Although the matter is not urgent from that viewpoint, certain other reasons make it desirable that the matter should be considered as urgent. It is, of course, inextricably interwoven with other questions relating to the British Government's proposals for the England- Australia air mail service and is receiving the attention of the Civil Aviation Department. A sub-committee, consisting of <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. H.</inline> P. Brown, Director of Postal Services, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shepherd,</inline> Secretary of the Defence Department, Vice-Air Marshall Williams and Captain Johnston has been appointed to report upon various aspects of the subject, and I expect to receive its report within the next week or ten days. I have no information of any particular delay within the Coram on wealth in dealing with the air mail service. </para>
</talk.start>
<para>I am now able to say in reply to a question which the honorable member for Moreton <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Francis)</inline> asked yesterday that the recent delay of four days in the existing England-Australian service occurred on the section of the route conducted by the British authorities. </para>
</speech>
</subdebate.1>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY DANCES</title>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KF9</name.id>
<electorate>KALGOORLIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA</electorate>
<party>ALP; FLP from 1931; ALP from 1936</party>
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">GREEN, Albert</name>
<name role="display">Mr A GREEN</name>
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<para>- I desire to make a personal explanation. On the 8th November, I addressed a question to the Minister for the Interior relating to complaints of restrictions placed on a dance at one of the Canberra hotels. The Minister in his reply said that any restrictions would have been imposed by the manageress of the hotel, with the object of ensuring that proper decorum would be observed. When I asked the question I was under the impression that the restrictions had been imposed by the Department of the Interior. I wish now to say that Miss Southwell, the manageress of Hotel Kurrajong, is held in the very highest respect by all honorable members who have had any contact with her, both for her personal qualities and her conduct of the hotel. I should not like any thought to arise that I held her blameworthy in any way for what had happened. </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
</subdebate.1>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>ITALO-AB YSSINI AN DISPUTE</title>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KK7</name.id>
<electorate>WATSON, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">JENNINGS, John</name>
<name role="display">Mr JENNINGS</name>
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<para>- I ask the Prime Minister whether he has any information to convey to honorable members which would confirm statements appearing in the press this morning to the effect that the operation of sanctions is likely to have the desired effect of bringing about an early termination of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>F4O</name.id>
<electorate />
<party>UAP</party>
<role />
<in.gov>1</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">LYONS, Joseph Aloysius</name>
<name role="display">Mr LYONS</name>
</talker>
<para>- I have no information on the subject. </para>
</talk.start>
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<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>WAR SERVICE HOMES</title>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KJQ</name.id>
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<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">JAMES, Rowland</name>
<name role="display">Mr JAMES</name>
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<para>- I ask the Minister in charge of War Service Homes whether he is aware that an unemployed man with a wife and two children who built a shack on a vacant piece of land owned by the War Service Homes Commission has been given notice to quit. Will he look into the circumstances of the case and direct that the order be cancelled ? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2227</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KWC</name.id>
<electorate>CALARE, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
<party>CP</party>
<role>Minister without portfolio assisting the Minister for Commerce</role>
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">THORBY, Harold</name>
<name role="display">Mr THORBY</name>
</talker>
<para>- The honorable member submitted a letter to me this morning dealing with this case. The actual facts are that about two years ago the person concerned erected a small building - it may he a shack as the honorable member says, although I have no information as to its nature - on a piece of land owned by the War Service Homes Commission without first obtaining authority to do so. He has been in occupation of the property for about two years. Recently the War Service Homes Commission gave him notice to remove the structure. I shall make further inquiry into the case, and the honorable member may be assured that I shall not be too severe on the person concerned. </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KYH</name.id>
<electorate>BOOTHBY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA</electorate>
<party />
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">PRICE, John</name>
<name role="display">Mr PRICE</name>
</talker>
<para>- I ask the Minister in charge of War Service Homes whether the provisions of the bill now before Parliament will affect widows who have vacated homes which they believed belonged to their husbands? </para>
</talk.start>
<continue>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KWC</name.id>
<electorate />
<party />
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">THORBY, Harold</name>
<name role="display">Mr THORBY</name>
</talker>
<para>- A provision with that object is included in the bill. </para>
</talk.start>
</continue>
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</subdebate.1>
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<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>WINE OVERSEAS MARKETING BOARD</title>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JTY</name.id>
<electorate>BARKER, SOUTH AUSTRALIA</electorate>
<party>CP; LP from 1944; LCL from 1951; LP from 1954</party>
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">CAMERON, Archie</name>
<name role="display">Mr ARCHIE CAMERON</name>
</talker>
<para>- I ask the Minister for Commerce whether the Government has in contemplation any alteration of the constitution, powers or functions of the Wine Overseas Marketing Board? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>C7E</name.id>
<electorate />
<party>CP</party>
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">PAGE, Earle</name>
<name role="display">Dr EARLE PAGE</name>
</talker>
<para>- Not at present. </para>
</talk.start>
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</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>TRADE AGREEMENT WITH NEW ZEALAND</title>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<para>Mr.FORDE . - Will the Prime Minister inform me whether there is any truth in the statement appearing in a section of the press this morning to the effect that, during the parliamentary recess, a Minister will visit New Zealand with the object of negotiating a trade agreement with the sister dominion? If so, has it been decided which Minister will make the trip? </para>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>F4O</name.id>
<electorate />
<party>UAP</party>
<role />
<in.gov>1</in.gov>
<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">LYONS, Joseph Aloysius</name>
<name role="display">Mr LYONS</name>
</talker>
<para>- No decision has been made in that matter. I said yesterday in reply to a question, that trade negotiations would be resumed with New Zealand after the new Government had been formed there. </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
</subdebate.1>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>PAPER</title>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<type>miscellaneous</type>
</debateinfo>
<para>The following paper was presented - </para>
<quote>
<para>Seat of Government Acceptance Act and Seat of Government ( Administration ) Act - Ordinance of1935-No. 18 - Mortgagor's Interest Reduction. </para>
</quote>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>NEW AND OPPOSED BUSINESS AFTER 11 P.M</title>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<type>miscellaneous</type>
</debateinfo>
<para class="block">Motion (by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Lyons)</inline> agreed to - </para>
<quote>
<para class="block">That Standing Order No. 70 (11 o'clock rule) be suspended until the end of the year. </para>
</quote>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>ORANGE BOUNTY BILL 1935</title>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<type>bill</type>
</debateinfo>
<para>
<inline font-style="italic">In committee</inline>(Consideration of Senate's amendment) : </para>
<para>Clause 5 - </para>
<quote>
<para>The bounty shall be payable in respect of - </para>
<list type="loweralpha">
<item label="(b)">
<para>navel oranges exported from the Commonwealth to the United Kingdom..... which, in the opinion of the Minister or of any person thereto authorized in writing by him, were of good and merchantable quality at the time of export, and were picked, handled, graded and packed in accordance with the conditions set forth in the schedule to this act. </para>
</item>
</list>
<para>
<inline font-style="italic">Senate's amendment.</inline>- Leave out " and packed"; insert ", packed and shipped". </para>
</quote>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KWC</name.id>
<electorate>Calare</electorate>
<party>CP</party>
<role>Assistant Minister</role>
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">THORBY, Harold</name>
<name role="display">Mr THORBY</name>
</talker>
<para>. - I move - </para>
</talk.start>
<quote>
<para>That the amendment be agreed to. </para>
</quote>
<para>This is a purely drafting amendment to bring the language of the clause into conformity with that of the schedule, and it involves no new principle. </para>
<para>Motion agreed to. </para>
<para>Resolution reported: report adopted. </para>
</speech>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION BILL 1935</title>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<type>bill</type>
</debateinfo>
<para class="block">Declaration of Urgency. </para>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2228</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JWE</name.id>
<electorate>Corio</electorate>
<party>UAP</party>
<role>Treasurer</role>
<in.gov>1</in.gov>
<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">CASEY, Richard</name>
<name role="display">Mr CASEY</name>
</talker>
<para>. - I declare the Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Bill an urgent bill. </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<division>
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<time.stamp />
<para>Question put. The House divided. (Mr. Speaker - Hon. G. J. Bell.)</para>
</division.header>
<division.data>
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<num.votes>39</num.votes>
<title>AYES</title>
</ayes>
<noes>
<num.votes>25</num.votes>
<title>NOES</title>
</noes>
</division.data>
<para>Majority . . . . 14 </para>
<para class="block">
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</para>
<para class="block">
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</para>
<para>AYES</para>
<para class="block">
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</para>
<para>NOES</para>
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</para>
<division.result>
<para>Question so resolved in the affirmative. </para>
</division.result>
<para>Allotment OF Time. </para>
<para>Motion (by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Casey)</inline> proposed - </para>
<para>That the time alloted in connexion with the bill bo as follows: - </para>
</division>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2229</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>009FQ</name.id>
<electorate>Fremantle</electorate>
<party />
<role />
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<name role="metadata">CURTIN, John</name>
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<para>.- The procedure proposed in the motion moved by the Treasurer <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Casey),</inline> which is inevitable, I suppose, at this stage of the session, is the outcome of a great deal of previous mismanagement on the part of the Ministry in submitting its programme to Parliament. On principle, the Opposition objects to the use of the guillotine, but ii also objects to the allocation of time set out in the timetable, because honorable members who desired to contribute to the debate on this bill can have no reasonable expectation of being able to do so. A debate on the general principles of repatriation will be impossible in the short space of time allotted for the second reading. In introducing the bill, the Prime Minister <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Lyons)</inline> himself initiated such a general debate. He reviewed the history of the repatriation of Australian soldiers, a question which involves consideration of a wide field of important subjects. Indeed, he made debate on the general features of Australia's repatriation system a notable part of his speech, and quite apart from the discussion of the general provisions of the bill, hi3 action in so doing surely demands that other honorable members should equally have something to say upon the principles, cost and character of our repatriation system; but the three and a half hours allotted for the second-reading stage will be utterly inadequate for a Parliament of 74 honorable members to enter upon such a debate. </para>
</talk.start>
<para>In committee, clauses from 1 to 18 will have to be completed within one hour, a time which two speeches will be sufficient to absorb. It is unreasonable, when such important clauses as are contained in the eighteen I have mentioned are to be considered, that a time limitation should be set which will possibly limit the number of speeches delivered to two. If this procedure is to be a feature of government practice for some time, it would be reasonable to amend the Standing Orders in respect of the time limit on speeches, so that even the Prime Minister, when introducing a bill, should be subject to the guillotine, and to the varied standing orders. </para>
<interjection>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2229</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KXQ</name.id>
<electorate />
<party />
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">PARKHILL, Robert</name>
<name role="display">Mr Archdale Parkhill</name>
</talker>
<para>- Surely the honorable member does not mean that? </para>
</talk.start>
</interjection>
<continue>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2229</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>009FQ</name.id>
<electorate />
<party />
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
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<name role="metadata">CURTIN, John</name>
<name role="display">Mr CURTIN</name>
</talker>
<para>- I see no reason why the proponent of a measure should be given the benefit of Standing Orders while the opponents suffer from limitation of time. </para>
</talk.start>
</continue>
<interjection>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>2229</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KWC</name.id>
<electorate />
<party />
<role />
<in.gov>0</in.gov>
<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">THORBY, Harold</name>
<name role="display">Mr Thorby</name>
</talker>
<para>- 'Surely there can be no opposition to this bill? </para>