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<para>The Clerk, having announced that, he had received a communication from the <inline font-weight="bold">President (Senator the Hon. T. Givens)</inline> that he would be unavoidably absent, owing to his representing the Senate at the funeral of the late <inline font-weight="bold">Mrs. Fairbairn-.</inline></para>
<para>The <inline font-weight="bold">Deputy President (Senator Bakhap)</inline> took the chair at 11.1 a.m., and read prayers. | </para>
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<title>DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND CUSTOMS</title>
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<para>Inter pretations of Rules and Regulations. </para>
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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>How many cases of proceedings have been threatened against the Customs Department arising out of the interpretations of Departmental rules and regulations during the period the present Government has been in power? </para>
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<para>How many cases of proceedings have been instituted against the Customs Department? </para>
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<para>How many cases have the Department settled out of Court? </para>
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<para>What is the total amount paid in connexion with such settlements? </para>
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<para>- The information is being obtained. </para>
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<para>asked the Leader of the Government in the Seuate, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Will the Government make some arrangements whereby those officers of the Public Service who have had increases allotted to them for the current year shall be paid immediately ? </para>
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<para>Will the Government make arrangements for the future to pay all increments, automatic and otherwise, on. the first pay-day following the due date? </para>
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<para>- The answer supplied is as follows: - 1 and 2. The instructions which have been issued in regard to the payment of increments for the present financial year and which follow the practice in previous years, are that where the salary of the officer, plus increment, does not exceedf245j the increments are to be paid immediately they accrue. In regard to officers receiving higher salaries, consideration will bo given to the question of paying increments after the Estimates have been presented to Parliament. </para>
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<title>DIGGERS' LOAN: COMPULSION</title>
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<para>asked the Leader of the Government in the Senate, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Whether he has noticed a statement in the press to the effect that the Government of New Zealand proposes to apply compulsion in the raising of the Post-War Loan for £6,000,000? </para>
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<para>Whether, in the event of the response in connexion with the present Diggers' Loan not being satisfactory, the Government intend to apply similar compulsion? </para>
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<para>Whether, in such circumstances, special attention will be given to men of means who have not subscribed to any previous loans? </para>
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<para>- The answers supplied by the Treasurer are as follow : - </para>
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<para>Yes. </para>
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<para>and 3. No consideration has yet been given to these questions. </para>
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<title>AUSTRALIAN JAM MAKERS</title>
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<para class="block">Restrictions on Sugar Concessions. </para>
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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>Is he aware that Australian jam makers, owing; to' the restrictions upon concessions for obtaining sugar for the manufacture of their exports, are at present holding inordinate quantities of pulp for manufacture and export? </para>
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<para>Will the Government liberalize the concessions referred to, and thus not only promote manufacture and export, but make way for the absorption of the coming season's fruit crop? </para>
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<para>- The answers are- - </para>
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<para>It is understood that such is the case. </para>
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<para>The matter has been receiving urgent consideration, and it is expected an early decision will be arrived at. </para>
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<page.no>11417</page.no>
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<inline font-weight="bold">Senator DE</inline>LARGIE presented the final report of the Select Committee on Senate Officials, together with minutes of proceedings, minutes of evidence and appendices. </para>
<para>Ordered to be printed. </para>
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<title>CUSTOMS TARIFF BILL</title>
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<inline font-style="italic">In Committee :</inline>Consideration resumed from 30th August <inline font-style="italic">{vide</inline> page 11416). </para>
<para>Schedule. division x.-- wool, wicker and cane. </para>
<para>Item 292 (Timber, viz., laths, pickets, &c.) agreed to. </para>
<para>Item 203- </para>
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<para>Doors of wood, including fly doors. </para>
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<para>Sizes 1½ in. and under, each, British 4s. 6d., intermediate 4s. 6d., general 4s.6d. </para>
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<para>Sizes over1½ in. and under 1¾ in., each, British 6s., intermediate (is., general 6s. </para>
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<para>Sizes If in. and over, each, British 8s. 6d., intermediate 8s.6d., general 8s. 6d. </para>
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<para>. - I draw the attention of the Minister for Defence <inline font-weight="bold">(Senator Pearce)</inline> to the position in regard to sub-item c, which relates to the manufacture of doors. These duties were brought down last March twelve months. Since then the timber duties have been increased to the extent of practically 100 per cent., so that it seems to me that unless we increase the duties on doors, at all events, we shall be placing some premium upon their importation, the duties having been first proposed in order to cultivate their localmanufacture. I raise this question more particularly in relation to sub-item c, but my argument also bears on sub-items a and b. </para>
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<page.no>11418</page.no>
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<para>. - No representations have been made to the Government as to the alteration of these duties, and I understand that they have been giving substantial satisfaction. The door making industry has been going on very well, and since no request in regard to the duties has been submitted- to the Department, we do not propose to ask for any alteration of them. </para>
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<page.no>11418</page.no>
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<para>. - Within the last day or two, very strong representations have been made to me in connexion with this item by Melbourne and Sydney firms interested in making doors. I can understand how it is that no such representations have been made to the Department for Trade and Customs. It is owing to the uncertainty that has existed in regard to what this Committee might do in respect to the main timber items. The position is now. settled in that respect. The main timber duties, by the action of this Committee, have been further increased, and now the position is that the duties on doors must also be altered. Otherwise in consequence of the raw material having had twice the duty placedon it as was expected by the Minister for Trade and Customs <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Greene)</inline> in framing the Tariff, the makers of doors in Australia must go out of business. Doors are being offered at extraordinarily low prices to-day. </para>
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<para>- Last year, Australia imported only £100 worth of doors. </para>
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<para>- Exactly , because of the Tariff that was then in operation. The duties on doors ought now to be in consonance with the higher duties imposed on the raw material. </para>
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<para>- The duties on doors have been practically prohibitive ever since 1913. </para>
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<para>- Doors and window sashes are made of imported softwoods, and the present duties- upon them bear some relation to the original duty of 1s. per 100 super, feet on the raw material, as was originally intended by the Minister for Trade and Customs; but when that rate has been raised to 4s., and another rate of 3s. to 5s. 6d., and still another rate of 3s. 6d. to 7s. - all on the raw material from which these doors are madei - then it follows that the existing duties on doors do' not continue to bear any sort of relation to the rates upon imported softwoods. I hope that the Minister will see his way clear to accept a 50 per cent.' advance upon the duties on doors in order that they. may have some relativity to the action taken by the Committee last night in increasing the main timber duties. </para>
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<para>. - The protection afforded to the door-making industry is more than generous. A party of Federal members visited Maryborough, in Queensland, some years ago, and saw doors and window sashes being made, for the Sydney and Melbourne markets, from Queensland cedar, a very excellent material for the purpose. I understand that silky oak is also used now for making these doors, but at that time cedar was the principaltimber used. </para>
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<para>- It is kept in ironsafes now. </para>
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<para>- - It is all gone now. </para>
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<para>- I know it is verysuperior timber, which ought to be put to better purposes, but it was so plentiful" at that time that complete houses were being built of it. The wages paid to theworkmen engaged in the mill were 6s. and' 7s. a day, and youths were working- mortising machines for 2s. a day. I think that the industry is sufficiently protected considering the amount of wages paid and the material used.- </para>
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<para>Request (by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Pratten)</inline> proposed - </para>
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<para>That the House of Representatives be requested to make the duties, sub-item (c) 1, 2,and 3, general, 6s. 9d., 9s., and 12s.9d. </para>
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<para>. - I trust that the Government will not yield to this request. I have very good authority for saying that, outof each £800, which is the average cost of building a house for a returned soldier, at least £50 is paid in duties upon the timber used. If we are faced with a problem, it is that of finding houses and homes for our people; and to do anything to make it more difficult to build is a disastrous step. </para>
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<para>- My request is only a logical corollary of what has already been done. 1 </para>
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<para>- Let us go back and undo what we have done. </para>
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<para>- I entirely agree with the honorable senator, and if he will move to recommit the timber duties with a view to reducing them he shall have my support. </para>
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<para>- In any case, I am against this proposed increase of duty, and I ask <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Pearce</inline> to " stick to his guns." </para>
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<para>.- The Inter-State Commission went fully into this question, and the duties they recommended were 3s. 6d., 5s. and 7s. 6d., according to size. The schedule proposes 4s. 6d., 6s. and8s. 6d., or1s. more than the Inter-State Commission recommended in each case. That makes up for the increase in the other duties. </para>
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<para>. - So far as my personal experience goes, over the last ten years at all events, no cedar is used in Sydney and suburbs unless in very expensive houses, and under exceptional conditions, for making doors. </para>
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<para>- There is a fair amount of maple used. </para>
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<para>- That is so. We all know that our cedar has in the past been burnt, or used for purposes which were economically unsound, and there is an exceedingly grave shortage of that tim-. ber in Australia to-day. However correct the remarks of <inline font-weight="bold">Senator de</inline> Largie may have been inconnexion with the environment he was in at the time of which he /spoke, cedar now does not come into consideration for the making of doors and window frames in Sydney . and suburbs. In reply to the Minister, I wish to say that by no vote of mine were the timber duties last night increased or confirmed. I think it is economically an unsound policy- </para>
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<para>- The honorable senator has a very short memory. </para>
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<para>- Will the honorable gentleman say in what direction ? </para>
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<para>- I have a distinct recollection of the honorable senator, not only voting for, but moving increases in the timber duties. </para>
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<para>- The Minister ought to put in the whole of the context. The test division was taken on log timber, and as the Committee decided not to reduce the duty on that timber, I allowed the next item to pass. I think we were in general agreement that whatever duty was fixed on log timber, the duties on the other timber should be relative, as a matter of fair play. That was the position I took up last night. </para>
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<para>- You moved to increase duties, whatever your motive may have been. </para>
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<para>- Because it was only fair to have an increased duty on dressed timber in relation to the duties fixed on the logs. </para>
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<para>- I am not questioning that. </para>
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<para>- I hope that the honorable gentleman next time will quote the whole of the context in an interjection, which otherwise may be misunderstood. I repeat that if these1 timber duties are recommitted my vote will ' be again recorded for reductions. I believe that what the Committee has done is economically unsound. </para>
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<para>- Yes; ever since the day we went, into Committee, </para>
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<para>- However, if the Minister will not accept my request, I cannot press it, but I again point out that the duty I propose has a fair relation to what we have already done. If the request is notaccepted, the inevitable outcome will be that the doors ou which the duty is imposed will be imported from . America already made up. They may be cheaper on that account, and thus fall in with the ideas of <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Thomas.</inline> But such a step is not consonant with the principle of the Tariff, which is to keep all the work we possibly can within our own borders for the employment of our own people. </para>
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<para>Request negatived. </para>
<para>Item agreed to. </para>
<para>Item 294 (Staves), item 295 (Shooks), item 296 (Casks and vats), item , -297. (Buckets and tubs), item 298 (Last blocks, <inline font-style="italic">ice.),</inline> and item 299 (Broom stocks, &c), agreed to. </para>
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<para>. - I cannot understand why the British preferential duty . and the general duty should be both 15 per cent. I move - </para>
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<para>- Hickory is an American timber, and these hickory felloes do not come from Great Britain. </para>
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<para>- That, I take it, is regarded as a good reason for giving Great Britain a greater preference; the low duty looks well on paper, and does no harmto Australia. </para>
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<para>Request negatived. </para>
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<para>. - Under the first Federal Tariff, elm hubs, I believe, were admitted free. A duty of 10 per cent, was imposed in 1908, but that degree of protection was ineffective. The rate is now 15 per cent., but even that does not provide reasonable protection compared with what has been imposed in respect of many favorably treated city industries. Coachbuilding is a country industry. </para>
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<para>- The Government have received no complaint that the duty of 15 per cent, is inadequate." </para>
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<para>- Imports do not suggest that it is sufficient. In 1920, about 21,000 American hubs were imported, and, in 1921, about 37,000; the total combined values were about £15,000'. The Australian product is just as good as, if not better than, the American elm hub, although a little on the heavy side. </para>
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<para>- I am willing to agree to a request for an increase of the general rate to 25 per cent. </para>
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<para>- I move, then - </para>
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<para>That the House of Representatives be requested to make the duty, sub-item (b), ad vol., general, 25 per cent. </para>
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<para>. - I support the request. In 1901, I secured the imposition of a 10 per cent, duty upon hubs. We had, and still have, a very fine timber in Western Australia., a eucalypt locally known as the York gum. It is a splendid curly timber, specially suited to the manufacture of hubs. Under the 1908 Tariff, the 10 per cent, rate was re-imposed. In 1914 the duty was made 15 per cent., and that rate has continued to date. </para>
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