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<date>1909-09-15</date>
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<para>Senate. </para>
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<day.start>1909-09-15</day.start>
<para>The President took the chair at 2.30 p.m., and read prayers. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
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<title>AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT MAKERS EMPLOYES' UNIONS</title>
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<para class="block">Payment oflegal Expenses. </para>
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<para>- I beg to ask the Minister of Trade and Customs whether, in view of the Senate's vote on the motion of <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Neild,</inline> regarding the payment of the costs incurred by the Agricultural Implement Makers Employes Unions, the Government propose to ask the Parliament to vote a sum for that purpose? </para>
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<para>- The Government have not altered their decision in this matter. </para>
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<name role="metadata">NEEDHAM, Edward</name>
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<para>- Do the Government defy a vote of the Senate ? </para>
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<para>- Move the adjournment of the Senate. </para>
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<para>- Seeing that the Senate is an integral part of the Parliament, and has by a majority of its members - nineteen votes - practically asserted that a portion of the costs of the employes of the implement makers should be paid, I wish to ask the Minister whether the Government do not think that that is a reason why they should reconsider their determination, or whether, if the other House should express a similar view to the Senate's, the Government' will reconsider their decision? </para>
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<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<para>- Of course it is not competent for eitherHouse to vote a sum of money as has been suggested by my honorable friend. </para>
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<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<para>- It can give a direction to the Government. </para>
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<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<para>- The Parliament can only speak through both Houses. Certainly the representations of the majority in either House are entitled to the fullest consideration. But so far as the Government have had an opportunity of further considering this matter, they have not been able to come to any decision other than that which I announced on Thursday last. </para>
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<para>- The Government may find that on the Supply Bill the Senate will have something to say. </para>
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<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<electorate>QUEENSLAND</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">ST LEDGER, Anthony</name>
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<para>- In the event of the Government reconsidering their decision with regard to recouping the legal costs of the employes in the harvester industry, will they consider the equity of paying the costs of the successful litigants? </para>
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<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">GIVENS, Thomas</name>
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<para>- They have had their pound of flesh. </para>
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<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">BEST, Robert</name>
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<para>- I cannot add anything to what I have already said. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<title>POSTAL COMMISSION</title>
<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">MACFARLANE, James</name>
<name role="display">Senator MACFARLANE</name>
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<para>- Can the Government give the Senate any information as to when the report of the Postal Commission will be presented, and, if not, will they ask the Treasurer to consider the question of curtailing supplies? </para>
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<talker>
<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<name.id>KUL</name.id>
<electorate>NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
<party>Free Trade</party>
<role>Vice-President of the Executive Council</role>
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<name role="metadata">MILLEN, Edward</name>
<name role="display">Senator MILLEN</name>
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<para>- My honorable friend will recognise how difficult it is for a Government to convey to a Royal Commission an impression as to the way in which its duties should be carried out. It is impossible for me to answer the latter part of his inquiry, and if he should seriously wish to press it, I ask him to give notice of a question. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>MAP OF AUSTRALIA</title>
<page.no>3409</page.no>
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<para>Northern Territory</para>
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<talk.start>
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<page.no>3409</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KPE</name.id>
<electorate>TASMANIA</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">KEATING, John</name>
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<para>- Is the VicePresident of the Executive Council now in a position to furnish any information as to the preparation of the official map of the Commonwealth, and has my suggestion as to the desirableness of furnishing the members of each House with a pocket linen map of those portions of Australia which will be affected by the acquisition of the Northern Territorybeen con sidered ? </para>
</talk.start>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3409</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KUL</name.id>
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<name role="metadata">MILLEN, Edward</name>
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<para>- The question of supplying a pocket map of the Northern Territory is under consideration. With regard to the official map of Australia, I have received the following memorandum from the Department of Home Affairs : - </para>
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<quote>
<para>With reference to your inquiry as to the progress being made with the compilation of the Official Map of Australia, I have the honour to inform you that it was proposed to have an entirely new compilation upon a scale of 24 miles to an inch; that the projection to be used should be polyconic. The work was proceeded with in the New South Wales Lands Department, the projection being laid down on linen and the sheets forwarded to the various States for the purpose of showing in outline the main coast features, &c. The Surveyors-General of some of the States raised the questionwhether the polyconic projection was the best suited for the work, and it was finally decided that, with a view of obtaining the most expert opinion, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Knibbs</inline> should bring the matter before the Geodetic .Conference sitting in London this month, to which he had been appointed the Australian delegate. </para>
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<interjection>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<para>- Surely, the polyconic can be the only accurate projection. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>OLD-AGE PENSIONS</title>
<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">PEARCE, George</name>
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<para>- Has the VicePresident of the Executive Council any communication to make to the Senate regarding the reasons for the delay in dealing with applications for old-age pensions in Western Australia? </para>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">MILLEN, Edward</name>
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<para>- I have obtained from the Department such information as is available, and if the honorable senator will allow the matter to stand over until the Supply Bill is submitted, I shall be pleased. </para>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<title>CABLE SERVICE, TASMANIA</title>
<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">KEATING, John</name>
<name role="display">Senator KEATING</name>
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<para>- Is the VicePresident of the Executive Council aware that Tasmania is still cut off from cable communication with the rest of the Commonwealth for over twenty-three hours each week, and that on Saturday evening telegrams lodged in Sydney for that State had to wait twenty hours for transmission; whereas had they been addressed to any other State they would have been despatched immediately ? Are steps being taken to place Tasmania in regard to communication with the other States in exactly the same position as those States enjoy in relation to each other? </para>
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<para>- Following up the honorable senator's previous question, communication was opened with the proper officials, and reports called for. I am advised that the reports do not contain sufficiently full information to enable a decision to be come to, and that further reports have been asked for. </para>
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<para>- Now that the cable is Commonwealth property, there should be no distinction as to States in this matter. </para>
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</interjection>
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<debate>
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<title>PAPERS</title>
<page.no>3410</page.no>
<type>papers</type>
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<para>MINISTERS laid upon the table the following papers: - </para>
<quote>
<para>Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904.- Provisional Regulations- Statutory Rules 1909, No. 102. </para>
<para>Papua. - Timber Ordinance (Consolidated! of 1909. </para>
<para>Australian Naval Defence - Copy of cable to the Secretary of State for the Colonies containing proposals relating to. </para>
</quote>
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<debate>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3410</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<title>TOBACCO INDUSTRY</title>
<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">PULSFORD, Edward</name>
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<para>asked the Minister of Trade and Customs, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>What quantities of dutiable commodities were delivered free of duty to the tobacco industry of the Commonwealth during the finan- rial year 1908-9 ? </para>
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<para>What would be the aggregate amount of revenue on such commodities according to the present Tariff? </para>
</item>
<item label="3.">
<para>If, instead of such commodities used in the manufacture of tobacco, imported unmanufactured tobacco to a corresponding weight had been used, what would have been the (1) approximate amount of duty on such unmanufactured tobacco, and (2) the approximate amount of the duty had the imported unmanufactured been mixed with the average weight of Australian tobacco ? </para>
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<para>- I am sorry that I am unable to furnish my honorable friend with a reply to his questions at present. We are in communication with the States ; and, as soon as the information is obtained, I shall, of course, be prepared to supply it. </para>
</talk.start>
</interjection>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<title>STATE GUARANTEES</title>
<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<para>asked the VicePresident of the Executive Council, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
</talk.start>
<quote>
<para>Referring to the question asked by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Pulsford-</inline> on the 26th August relating to State guarantees, such as those, by the three eastern States in connexion with the Pacific Cable, and to the reply to such question, has the Government now examined the whole subject, and are they prepared to make a definite statement in relation thereto? </para>
</quote>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<para>- The answer to the honorable senator's question is as follows :- </para>
</talk.start>
<quote>
<para>On the coming into force of the agreement made at the Melbourne Conference in August, 1909, the obligation in regard to the Pacific Cable, New Caledonia Cable, and defences at King George's Sound and Thursday Island will be borne by the Commonwealth. </para>
</quote>
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<debate>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3410</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<page.no>3410</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">VARDON, Joseph</name>
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<para>asked the VicePresident of the Executive Council, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>What is the cost of the proposed alterations and resumptions to enlarge the present General Post Office, Sydney, together with the. buildings to be erected?. </para>
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<para>Will the Government undertake to give members an opportunity of expressing their opinions before' anything definite is decided upon ? </para>
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<para>- The answers to the honorable senator's questions are as follow : - </para>
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<para>The only alterations at the General Post Office, Sydney, contemplated by the Government are the internal improvements, for which a provision of£8,000has beenmade on this year's Estimates towards a total estimated cost of £18,000. </para>
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<para>. See answer to No. 1. </para>
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<page.no>3411</page.no>
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<page.no>3411</page.no>
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<para>asked the VicePresident of the Executive Council, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
</talk.start>
<para>Will he lay upon the table of the Library the papers containing the opinion of the Crown Solicitor in reference to the claim of Captain and Honorary <inline font-weight="bold">Major Carroll</inline> to recognition by the Commonwealth Government of his promotion in South Africa to the rank of Major? </para>
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<para>- The answer is, yes. </para>
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<page.no>3411</page.no>
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<page.no>3411</page.no>
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<para>asked the VicePresident of the Executive Council, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
</talk.start>
<para>Is his honorable colleague the Minister of Defence assured that under the contract with Messrs. Pratt, Whitney, for the supply of machinery, &c, for the proposed rifle factory the contractors can - </para>
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<para>Supply machines, which it is alleged other firms are, by virtue of patent rights, sole makers of, but which are necessary for the manufacture of the British service rifle? </para>
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<item label="2.">
<para>Supply gauges, suitable for the manufacture of British service rifle? </para>
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<item label="3.">
<para>Is it not a fact that the gauges referred to are the sole property of the British War Office? </para>
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<para>If it is so, have the War Office consented to their use byan American firm ? </para>
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<para>- The answers to the honorable senator's questions are as follow : - 1 and 2. Yes. 3 and 4. Messrs. Pratt and Whitney undertake to provide gauges generally similar to the British War Office pattern, which will only pass work which will be interchangeable with productions from Enfield ; such gauges will Be according to Messrs. Pratt and Whitney's own design. Commander Clarkson, after personal inquiries in America, gives an assurance that he is fully satisfied on this point. </para>
</talk.start>
<para class="block">CASE OF J. MacDONNELL. </para>
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<para>asked the VicePresident of the Executive Council, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Was the application of ex-Private MacDonnell for compensation for injuries received while on duty, dealt with by the Military Head-quar ters Staff, New South Wales, in accordance with the terms of Financial Regulation No. 132? </para>
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<para>Does not the said regulation enact that such applications " shall be forwarded for the consideration of the Military Board " ? </para>
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<para>If the Military authorities of New South Wales did not comply with the terms of Regulation No. 132, have they been called on to explain their conduct? </para>
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<para>- The answers to the honorable senator's questions are as follow : - </para>
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</continue>
<para>In view of the fact that ex-Private MacDonnell was granted£73710s. compensation by the Railway Department for the injuries in question, it was not considered by the Military authorities in New. South Wales that Financial Regulation 132 applied to his case. Action as prescribed by that regulation was not, therefore, taken. In order, however, that the legal position of the Department may be considered, the whole matter will be referred to the Crown Law authorities for advice. </para>
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<para>- The Minister has not answered either the second or the third question. I press for answers to them. </para>
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<continue>
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<para>- So far as I am able to understand the matter, the answers to the honorable senator's questions are contained in the reply which I have read. If the honorable senator did not catch its purport, perhaps I may be pardoned for reading it again. </para>
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<para>- I caught the terms of the answer quite distinctly. But question number two makes an inquiry with regard to the regulations governing these matters, and the honorable senator gave no reply to that. Neither has he given a reply to the question as to whether the military authorities in New South Wales have been called upon to explain why the law was not complied with. </para>
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<para>- I have submitted the reply received from the Department, and am not prepared to give any other on the spur of the moment. </para>
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<debate>
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<page.no>3411</page.no>
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<para>Bill read a third time. </para>
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<debate>
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<page.no>3411</page.no>
<type>bill</type>
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<para>Motion (by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Colonel Neild)</inline> agreed to - </para>
<para>That leave be given to bring in a Bill for the amendment of section 73 of the Commonwealth Constitution. </para>
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<debate>
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<title>SUPPLY BILL (No. 2)</title>
<page.no>3412</page.no>
<type>bill</type>
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<para>Papua : Indenturing of Native Labour - Grants to Rifle Clubs - Federal Territory : Proposed Naval College - Old-age Pensions - Wireless Telegraphy Installations - Vancouver Mail Service - " Australian Socialism " - Agricultural Implement Makers Employes Unions : Payment of Legal Expenses^- Meteorological Branch : Employes - Government Printing: Western Australia - Post and Telegraph Department : Fines : Annual Increments : Board of Inquiry: Telephone Fitters. </para>
<para>Bill received from House of Representatives. </para>
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<page.no>3412</page.no>
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<para>. - In accordance with the notice of motion appearing on the business-paper, I move - </para>
</talk.start>
<quote>
<para>That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the Bill being proceeded with, and passed through all its stages forthwith. </para>
</quote>
<para>Honorable senators know the purpose of the motion. In fact, its purpose is set out in its terms. I need only say with regard to the Supply Bill itself that it is strictly limited to the ordinary services ; that it is to provide one month's Supply; and that, roughly speaking, taken together with the Supply Bill already passed, it represents one-fourth of the appropriation for the whole year. </para>
<para>Question resolved in the affirmative. </para>
<para>Motion (by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Millen)</inline> proposed - </para>
<quote>
<para>That this Bill be now read a first time. </para>
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<page.no>3412</page.no>
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<para>. - I wish to bring under the notice of the Government a matter relating to Papua.. An ordinance has lately been issued by the local Administration dealing with the indenturing of native labour. The > effect- of- it- is,- that before labour can be indentured and taken to another district, the person indenturing has to deposit a certain sum of money as a guarantee that the stipulated wages will be paid. To that I have no objection. But there is a further provision by which an officer may, if he be otherwise satisfied, dispense with the deposit of money. I think that affords a loophole that should not be permitted. Officers are only human, and in a small coma-unity- like Papua, where there are very few white residents, the official class and those who require labour are likely to be on friendly terms. They must meet frequently for social purposes. If a request were made to an officer to dispense with the guarantee, he would, under certain circumstances, have to be a very strong-minded man to stand up against pressure. I am sure- that we all desire that for the fair name of Australia our administration of Papua shall be beyond the possibility of adverse criticism. If there is one thing which more than another will attract the criticism, especially of people of other countries, it will be our treatment of the native races. For that reason we should be particularly careful in our administration . of Papua in this respect. </para>
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<para>- Did not the. late Minister of External Affairs inquire Into that matter, and report very favorably of the present system ? </para>
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<para>- I do not think that the late .Minister of External Affairs could have reported upon the present system, because the ordinance to which I refer was circulated amongst honorable senator's only last week, or at the close of the week before last. I trust that the Government will look into the matter, and, if there is the least likelihood of abuse creeping in, veto that particular part of the ordinance. We need to be hypersensitive on the question of the treatment of the natives. Papua is beginning to attract capital ; the plantations are turning out successfully, and there is every indication that considerable capital will be attracted to the Territory. While that is a very good thing, we are under an obligation to see that the Papuans, whose country it is, shall not be exploited in the interests of capital. The indenturing of native labour is one of the most difficult questions of administration with which the 'Commonwealth Government is faced. I desire to bring under the notice of the Senate the way in which grants to rifle clubs are distributed amongst the various States. At my instance a return was tabled in the Senate last week giving the number of rifle clubs, the number of their members, the number of efficients, and the grants to rifle clubs in each of the States. I shall give the Senate some of the information disclosed by the return. In New South Wales there are 16,118 members of rifle clubs, of whom 1,365 are efficient; and the New South Wales clubs receive a grant of ,£2,500. In Victoria the figures are, 22.990 members, 12,280 efficients, and grant ^£1,025. In Queensland, 7,047 members, 4,581 efficients, grant £1,880. In South Australia, 5,017 members, 2,521 efficients, grant £700. In Western Australia 5,280 members, 2,910 efficients, grant £500. In Tasmania 1,404 members, 927 efficients, grant £400. </para>
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<page.no>3413</page.no>
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<para>- Are these capitation grants ? </para>
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