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<date>1918-10-03</date>
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<para class="block">Senate. </para>
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<day.start>1918-10-03</day.start>
<para>The <inline font-weight="bold">President (Senator the Hon. T. Givens)</inline> took the chair at 3 p.m., and read prayers. </para>
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<para class="block">The following papers were presented : - </para>
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<para>Defence Act 1903-1918. - Regulations amended. - Statutory Rules 1918, No. 241. </para>
<para>LandsAcquisition Act 1906-1916. - Land acquired at Westernport, Victoria - For Defence purposes. </para>
<para>War Precautions Act 1914-1916. - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1918, No. 247. </para>
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<title>Mr. Justice Harvey's Report</title>
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<para>SenatorO'KEEFE. - Last week I asked the Minister for Defence for some information in explanation of the withholding from the <inline font-style="italic">World</inline> newspaper in Hobart <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Justice</inline> Harvey's report on the inquiry connected with the Irish internees. The Minister asked me to postpone the question, and I ask it again now, because I understand that he is in a position to supply the information asked for.' </para>
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<para>- <inline font-style="italic">(By leave)</inline> - With reference to the issue of <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Justice</inline> Harvey's report relative to certain internees, I desire to furnish the following additional facts: - The original copy of the report was handed by. me to the Secretary late on Saturday morning,' the 21st September, and certain of the staff were retained all Sunday to make special copies. At noon on the 21st Captain Hayes, who is acting as Deputy Chief Censor during the absence of Colonel McColl on sick leave, was asked by the Secretary to supply a list of the morning newspapers in each State. This list was received about 11 a.m. on Monday, the 23rd, and sufficient copies of. report were forwarded, under registered cover, to Military Commandants (except Victoria) on that date, with instructions to acknowledge receipt by wire. On the Secretary submitting the list supplied by the Acting Deputy Chief Censor to me on the morning of the 24th, I noticed that the <inline font-style="italic">Daily Post,</inline> Hobart, and the <inline font-style="italic">Daily Standard,</inline> Brisbane,* had been omitted, and directed that these two publications should receive copies, if they were morning publications. </para>
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<para class="block">Inquiries were at once made at the Censor's Office, and reply received in the afternoon that the <inline font-style="italic">Daily Post</inline> was now the <inline font-style="italic">World,</inline> and was a morning paper, but that the first issue of the <inline font-style="italic">Standard</inline> was not published until 12.30 p.m. The latter was not, therefore, entitled to a copy under the conditions of issue. Copy was sent to the Commandant, Tasmania, on the 24th September, for the <inline font-style="italic">World,</inline> but as the mail on that date closed for registered letters at 9.45 a.m. it caught that of the 25th, and .was delivered on the 27th. On the Acting Deputy Chief Censor being asked for an explanation in regard to the omission of the <inline font-style="italic">World</inline> from the list, he states it occurred owing to his being under the impression that the paper appeared in the afternoon, and was not a morning journal. It was decided to present the report to Parliament on Thursday, the 26th September - which was earlier than anticipated - and it became necessary, therefore, to release copies for the morning press on the evening of that day. Thursday was a holiday, and the officer dealing with the matter was absent from duty; otherwise arrangements might have been made for the Commandant in Tasmania to have had a special copy struck off for issue to the <inline font-style="italic">World,</inline> as the copy sent from Melbourne on the 25th September could not reach Hobart in time. The release of the report on the 26th September also precluded the "Western Australian papers from receiving their copies in time. </para>
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<para>- Arising out of the answer to my question I ask the Minister for Defence if ho will instruct the Censor to be a little more careful in the discharge of his very onerous and important duties, and find out what daily newspapers are published in the Commonwealth. The Censor received instructions to issue <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Justice</inline> Harvey's report to the morning newspapers, and his reply is that he did not know that the <inline font-style="italic">World</inline> was a morning newspaper. He might easily have found out, as there are only two morning newspapers published in Hobart. I ask the Minister if he will instruct the Censor to see that such a mistake is not committed again, and to find out what daily newspapers are published in the Commonwealth? </para>
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<para>- That has already been represented to the Censor, by my instructions. </para>
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<title>PUBLIC SERVICE</title>
<page.no>6586</page.no>
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<para>Preference to Returned Soldiers</para>
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<page.no>6586</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">GARDINER, Albert</name>
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<para>- Is it the policy of the Government to discharge men in their employ to make room for returned soldiers? </para>
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<page.no>6586</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">MILLEN, Edward</name>
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<para>- I ask the honorable senator to give notice of his question, since it is not possible to answer it briefly. </para>
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<inline font-weight="bold">Senator GARDINER.^1</inline>give notice of the question; but, arising out of the answer by the Minister- for Repatriation, I should like to ask another question, and I think I shall be in . order in quoting a few words to make my question intelligible. I received a letter from a member of the Government in reply to a communication from myself in connexion with a case of hardship through a' man being put out of his employment to find room for a returned soldier, in which the Minister said - </para>
<quote>
<para>The Government have decided, in connexion with casual employment, that returned soldiers shall receive first preference, and shall replace eligibles wherever possible. </para>
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<para class="block">I now ask whether, if Ministers intend tq make room for returned soldiers by replacing eligibles, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Groom, Mr. Orchard, Mr. Massy</inline> Greene, <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Russell,</inline> and <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Pearce</inline> - all members of the Government of military age - will be asked to make room for returned soldiers ? </para>
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<para>- Unfortunately, all <inline font-style="italic">the</inline> members of the Government mentioned by the honorable senator are beyond the military age, -and, therefore, in fairness to them he should not have made his statement. </para>
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<para>- May I ask the Minister for Defence what is the military age? </para>
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<page.no>6586</page.no>
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<para>- The military age is forty-five, and, unfortunately, I am fortyeight years of age. . </para>
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<page.no>6586</page.no>
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<para>- I rise .to apologize. I was under the impression that, for a considerable time past, the military age had been extended to fifty years. I withdraw ' what I said under that impression. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>6587</page.no>
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<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>EMBARGO ON IMPORTATION OF SOAP FROM AMERICA</title>
<page.no>6587</page.no>
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<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>6587</page.no>
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<para>asked the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Customs, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Has the restriction against the importation of soap from America been removed? </para>
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<para>Is it the intention of the Government to put American traders on the same level as those of France, Japan, and the other Allied countries? If not, why? </para>
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<page.no>6587</page.no>
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<name.id>K3E</name.id>
<electorate>VICTORIA</electorate>
<party>NAT</party>
<role>Vice-President of the Executive Council</role>
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<name role="metadata">RUSSELL, Edward</name>
<name role="display">Senator RUSSELL</name>
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<para>- The answers are - </para>
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<para>No. </para>
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<para>No. The reasons have already been given to the honorable senator in full detail in connexion with his motion for the adjournment of the Senate on 20th September last year <inline font-style="italic">(Hansard,</inline> pages 2320 and 2321). The position now is the same as then. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>6587</page.no>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>HOLIDAY ON SHOW DAY</title>
<page.no>6587</page.no>
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<page.no>6587</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">NEEDHAM, Edward</name>
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<para>asked the Minister representing the Acting Prime Minister, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Is it a fact that the Acting Prime Minister in another place, a few days ago, stated that officers of the Commonwealth Public Service were to be granted a holiday on Thursday last to enable them to visit the Show, but that instructions were issued in the Prime Minister's Department on Wednesday afternoon last that every officer of the Prime Minister's Department (male and female) had to report for work on the Thursday in question, thus preventing them from attending the Show? </para>
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<para>Were these instructions issued by the Acting Prime Minister; if so, why? </para>
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<para>If not, by whom were they issued, and by whose authority ? </para>
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<page.no>6587</page.no>
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<para>- The answers are - </para>
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<para>Yes. </para>
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<para>By the permanent head, to enable the work of the Department to be carried on. This was largely necessitated owing to the meeting of Parliament. Some of the officers were allowed off during the afternoon. </para>
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<para>New Guinea Development Company</para>
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<para>Will the Minister give an outline of the main points in connexion with the law cases brought against the New Guinea Development Company to protect the interests of the natives employed by them? </para>
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<para>- The answer is - </para>
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<para>The British New Guinea Development Company lodged complaints against twenty-eight native labourers for desertion without reasonable cause. After a hearing of three and a half days, the complaints were dismissed by the magistrates, on the ground that defendants had reasonable ground for deserting, inasmuch as the employers had failed to supply the defendants with good and sufficient food. Two guineas costs were given against the company in each case. An application was then made on behalf of the twenty-eight labourers for cancellation of their contract of service. An inquiry was held, and the contracts were cancelled. The facts disclosed during the course of inquiry were brought before the local Executive Council, when it was ordered that no more labour should be signed on, transferred, or hired to Messrs. Jensen and Nunn, who had been the principal officials of the company on this particular estate, and that no more labour should be signed on to any person or company having either of those persons in their employ. </para>
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<para>What are the approximate net earnings of the Commonwealth Shipping Line for the year ending 30th June, 1918? Has any depreciation been allowed for since the purchase of the steamers ? </para>
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<para>- The information desired by the honorable senator will be obtained and furnished as soon as possible. </para>
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<para>Tin Smelters and Producers' Associa tion - Personnel of Metal Associations. </para>
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<para>When will full publicity be given to all particulars of the Tin Smelters and Producers' Association outlined in the Ministerial answer to question No.6 on the business-paper of the Senate of 2nd October,1918? </para>
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<para>- Full particulars of the Tin Producers' Association will be given at the earliest possible date. </para>
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<para>The Associated Lead Smelters; and what firms or companies do they represent? </para>
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<para>- The Zinc Producers' Association Proprietary Limited, the Copper Producers' Association Proprietary Limited, and the Broken Hill Associated Smelters' Proprietary Limited are proprietary companies registered under the Victorian Companies Act. The names of the shareholders of the two firstmentioned companies were given by me in answers to the question asked yesterday by the honorable senator. The names of the shareholders of the Broken Hill Associated Smelters' Proprietary Limited are as follow: - Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, North Broken Hill Limited, Broken Hill South S.M. Company, Zinc Corporation Limited, British Broken Hill Company Limited. </para>
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<para>- Arising out of the answer given by the Minister, I point out that I asked specifically, and I shall ask again, for the names of persons who represent these companies on the associations. I assume that the Minister has not the information at his disposal now, but that is what I want to know. </para>
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<para>- I want to say, with all due respect to honorable senators, that I do not feel that I am called upon to answer, without notice, questions which are allegedly based upon answers given to questions on notice. </para>
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<para>- That is not fair. The honorable senator asked for leave to give notice yesterday. </para>
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<para>-Since that is the position, as stated by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator O'Keefe,</inline> I shall appeal to you, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. President,</inline> and ask if the honorable senator is in order in asking that question? </para>
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<para>- I understand that <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Pratten</inline> obtained leave yesterday to ask the question which appears on the notice-paper to-day, and the Minister has given his official reply. Beyond that I do not think the Minister should be asked to go, except on further notice. </para>
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<para>- Is it possible, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. President,</inline> to give notice now? </para>
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<para>- Only by leave of the Senate. </para>
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<para>- Then, may I ask for leave to give notice ? </para>
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<para>- Is it the pleasure of the Senate that <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Pratten</inline> have leave to give notice of the question indicated ? </para>
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<para>- No. </para>
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<para>- There being one objector, the honorable gentleman cannot have leave. </para>
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<para>- I objected because I think the honorable senator should make himself acquainted with our Standing Orders. </para>
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<para>Debate resumed from 2nd October <inline font-style="italic">(vide</inline> page 6538), on motion by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Russell</inline> - </para>
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<para>That this Bill be now read a second time. </para>
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<para>. - I welcome the introduction of the Bill, because I consider it one of the most important measures than can occupy the attention of the Senate, and because it will be far-reaching in its effects. There is not the slightest doubt that research work carried on in connexion with the proposed Institute will do very much for the development of Australia. Up to the present time much of our work in this direction has been done by ruleofthumb methods rather than upon results of scientific investigations. I do not know why it is so, but in the minds of many persons there seems to be a prejudice against the scientist - a feeling that his researches have something in connexion with the long distance of the stars, or with the minutest of molecules, or with some tiny bacteria that cause disease. They forget that science, as the handmaiden of industry, has given to us many of the advantages that we enjoy to-day. Indeed, there are few business men who would be prepared to dispense with the advantages for which they are indebted to science. Where is the business man who would feel satisfied with the condition of things that obtained at the beginning of the nineteenth century? Assuming Australia had beensettled at that time, it would have taken four or five days for a letter sent from Melbourne to reach Sydney, and if it had been addressed to a person living farther north he might possibly have received it some time before Christmas. To-day he knows that within a very brief period of his communication being posted it will be read by its recipient in Sydney. But should he desire even quicker means of communication, he has merely to use the telephone in order to be brought practically face to face with his correspondent at the other end of the line. The student who in those times was obliged to use a tallow candle at night now has' the advantage of the electric light. Yet the business man does not think that science has assisted him. He fails to realize his obligations to it. He does not appreciate the swift sea carriage and the rapid locomotion by land which is possible to-day. As a matter of fact, many of the remedies which assuage our physical ills and make life more endurable than it would otherwise be, have been gifts from the hands of science. Why, then, should science be treated so scurvily by those upon whom she has conferred the richest benefits ? There was a time when the merchant was obliged to wait months for his oversea merchandise, but to-day, if it is a few hours late, he is very loud in his complaints. He is loath to acknowledge what science has done for him. But surely it is incumbent upon us to recognise that it is the discovery of to-day which makes possible a solution of other problems that immediately confront us. I fail to see why the scheme which is embodied in this Bill should be regarded as too costly for the Commonwealth to undertake. If, for the defence of our homes, we are prepared to raise hundreds of millions sterling, surely we ought to be no less niggardly in our regard for the development of our country and the betterment of the conditions of those who will come after us. I do not forget that the result of one research undertaken by the British Science and Industry Committee in connexion with an improved process for the extraction of tin, was to increase the returns of the Cornish tin mines by 5 per cent. - or an equivalent in value of £30,000 per annum. </para>
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<para>In Australia, it must not be forgotten, we are not called upon to deal with one metal only. The field for research is so wide that one scarcely knows where to begin. The more closely the position is studied, the greater are the possibilities which present themselves to our gaze. In connexion with the extraction of metals from ores, we recognise that posterity will be confronted with precisely similar obstacles to those which we encountered in dealing with some of the older metals. We all remember when the extraction of silver at the Broken Hill mines was an extremely difficult operation. Not until a scientific man came to our aid was that difficulty removed. Though it may be to our shame to confess it, the solution of the difficulty was not the result of British research. </para>
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<para>- Others took the credit for it. </para>
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<para>- And very largely it was honestly due to them. </para>
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<para>- I dispute that. </para>
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<para>- Will the honorable senator name one single improvement in connexion with the extraction of metal from crude ores, during the past twenty years, which can be credited to an Englishman. </para>
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<para>- Stewart did more for Broken Hill than did any other man. </para>
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<para>-Where did the marvellous improvements in connexion with our dyes come from? I admit that the first discovery was that of an Englishman, but I know that one firm in Germany spent £750,000 in the discovery of a single dye. I know, too, that the very bunting which we so proudly fly in Australia was probably produced with the aid of dyes that were made in Germany. </para>
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<para>- The honorable senator did not confine his observation to dyes. </para>
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<para>- The internal combustion engine of the Diesel type was perfected, not by a Britisher, but by a foreigner. It is characteristic of the Englishman that he is more conservative and moves more slowly than do the men of other races. The perfection of our system of electric lighting came from Faraday. When Faraday explained it to <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. W.</inline> E. Gladstone, he asked, "What use will it be? " and the reply was, " It will be something you will be able to tax by-and-by." That has been characteristic of the history of our industries, and we cannot wonder that the hard-headed business man has frequently felt that the difficulties confronting him in improving his industry were too great. Only when the conviction is forced on him that his business is being taken from him by another nation does he begin to take notice. </para>
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<para>In a book called <inline font-style="italic">The First Principles of Production,</inline> by Taylor Peddie, F.S.S., a quite recent publication, it is stated - </para>
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<para class="block">Will my honorable friend say that that has not been characteristic of the British manufacturer ? </para>
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