– The Department of Trade and Customs is conducting inquiries, and I personally intendto take up the matter with the Consul-General in Australia for the United States of America. Has the Minister an announcement to make to the House on the subject ? Mr WHITE: Hawker) asked the Minister for Trade and Customs if he would represent to the Government of the United States of America the unfairness of excluding from America imports of Australian wines and other alcoholic beverages, under the quota arrangements that are to operate upon the repeal of the prohibition law. – On Monday last the honorable member for Wakefield (Mr. Quota on Imports into the United States of America. If, however, the present arrangement should prove successful, I am certain that the Government would consider the extension of the privilege. If the suggestion of the honorable member, to extend the scope of the proposal beyond capital cities, were given effect, the loss would be anything up to £100,000, and that cannot be contemplated by the department. A loss to the department of between £35,000 and £40,000 is involved, but it is hoped that that may be recouped. – I have explained that this is largely in the nature of an experiment, and that one of its main purposes is to provide employment in the reconditioning of telephones that are out of use, but which, it is thought, might by this means bo again placed in operation. Can the PostmasterGeneral explain why the announced reductions of telephone rates are to apply only to capital cities, to the exclusion of towns that have larger populations and do a greater volume of business than some of those capitals? Mr ARCHDALE PARKHILL: 7 QUESTION TELEPHONE RATES AT NEWCASTLE Mr WATKINS: I now go further and say that, while it is the duty of the Government, so far as possible, to see that Australian materials are used in Australian buildings, it isscarcely its province to see that they come from any particular State. – On a previous occasion, in reply to a similar question, I intimated that this matter was one for the Commonwealth Bank Board, and not the Government. I realize that the Government cannot direct the Commonwealth Bank Board as to what stone shall be used in this work, but will the Prime Minister again communicate to the board the fact that the availability of supplies of suitable stone in South Australia make it unnecessary to use stone imported from New South Wales? Mr LYONS: – I am continually receiving letters pointing out that stone suitable for use in the extensions that are being made to the Commonwealth Bank building in Adelaide is available in South Australia. 7 QUESTION COMMONWEALTH BANK, ADELAIDE I think that it will be necessary for additional tariff items to be tabled, and as they may not have been disposed of when the Christmas recess is begun, the prorogation of Parliament cannot be hoped for. – I cannot give the assurance sought by the honorable member. Is the right honorable gentleman able to say whether there will be a reversion to this practice by the prorogation of Parliament when its present sittings are completed? Mr LYONS: – On the 8th November last, I asked the Prime Minister for an assurance that the practice which obtained for a quarter of a century, and which is provided for in the Constitution, that there shall be a session of Parliament each year, would in future he observed. 7 QUESTION PARLIAMENTARY SESSIONS Mr R GREEN: Mackay) took the chair at 11 a.m., and read prayers. Customs Tariff Amendment (No 4) : Tobacco Duties.Shale Oil Industry : Newnes Investigation Committee.COCKATOO ISLAND DOCKYARD AGREEMENT -BILL 1933.AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH LINE OF STEAMERS.View PDF View XML View in Voyant House of Representatives
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