12th Parliament · 1st Session
The President (Senator the Hon. W. Kingsmill) took the chair at 3 p.m., and read prayers.
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The following papers were presented -
Audit Act - Finance - Treasurer’s Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the year ended 30th June, 1930, accompanied by the Report of the Auditor-General.
Balance-sheets of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Commonwealth Savings Bank at 31st December, 1930, and Statement of the Liabilities and Assets of the Note Issue Department at 31st December, 1930; together with Auditor-General’s Reports thereon.
Audit Act - Transfers of amounts approved by the Governor-General in Council - Financial Year 1929-30- Dated 23rd February, 1931.
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No.17.
Customs Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No. 16.
Dairy Produce Export Control Act - Regulations amended, &c. - Statutory Rules 1930, No, 143; 1931, No. 12.
Designs Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1930, No. 150.
Dried Fruits Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1930, No. 151.
Dried Fruits Export Charges Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No. 18.
Excise Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No. 25.
Export Guarantee Act - Return showing assistance granted - to 31st December. 1930.
Flax and Linseed Bounties Act - Regulations -Statutory Rules 1930, No. 154.
Gold Bounty Act - Regulations - Statutory Rules 1931, No. 21.
Land Tax Assessment Act - List of Applications for Relief from Taxation during the year 1930.
New Guinea Act -
Ordinance of 1930 - No. 23 - Customs.
Ordinances of 1931. -
No. 1 - Stamp Duties.
No. 2 - Superannuation.
Norfolk Island Act - Ordinances of 1930 -
No. 3 - Health.
No. 4 - Crown Lands.
Papua Act - Ordinances of 1930 -
No. 10 - Native Regulation.
No. 11 - Post and Telegraph.
Patents Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1930, No. 148.
Public Service Act - Appointment - Department of the Treasury - H. W. Quiney.
Sales Tax Assessment Acts - Regulations - Statutory Rules 1930, No. 156.
Superannuation Act - Regulations - Statutory Rules 1930, No. 145.
Trade Marks Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1930, No. 149- No. 157.
Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1930. No. 144.
Wine Grapes Charges Acts - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No. 11.
Postmaster-General’s Department - Twentieth Annual Report, 1929-30.
Air Force Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No. 3.
Air Navigation Act - Regulations amended -Statutory Rules 1931, No.8- No. 9.
Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No.6.
Control of Naval Waters Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No. 7
Defence Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No. 1- No. 13- No. 14- No. 15.
Lands Acquisition Act - Land acquired at -
Corowa, New South Wales - For Postal (Broadcasting) purposes.
Mackay, Queensland - For Defence purposes (two notifications).
Rawlinna, Western Australia - For Defence purposes.
Nationality Act - Return showing the number of persons to whom Certificates of Naturalization were granted during the year 1930, and the countries whence the applicants came.
Naval Defence Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1930, No. 152- No. 153. 1931. No. 2.
Northern Australia Act -
Central Australia -
Ordinances of 1931 -
No. 1 - Deputy Government Resident.
No. 2 - Justices.
Public Service Ordinance - Regulations amended.
North Australia -
Ordinance of 1930 - No. 20 - Pearling (No. 2).
Ordinances of 1931. -
No. 1 - Deputy Government Resident.
No. 2 - Justices.
Education Ordinance - Regulations amended.
Pearling Ordinance - Regulations.
Public Service Ordinance - Regulations amended.
Passports Act - Regulations - Statutory Rules 1930, No. 155.
Post and Telegraph Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1931, No. 4 - No. 5.
Seat of Government Acceptance Act and Seat of Government (Administration) Act-
Ordinance of 1930 - No. 22 - Housing (No. 2).
Ordinances of 1931 -
No. 1 - Fish Protection.
No. 2- Public Baths.
No. 3 - Careless Use of Fire.
Administration and Probate Ordinance - Rules of Court, dated 17th December, 1930.
Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance (No. 2)- Rules (Solictors’ Costs).
Fish Protection Ordinance - Regulations.
Land Advisory Board Ordinance - Regulations (Fees).
Public Baths Ordinance - Regulations.
Seat of Government (Administration) Ordinance and Public Health Ordinance - Regulations -
General Sanitation.
Infectious Diseases.
Piggeries.
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Senator DOOLEY presented the following Papers :
Reports and Maps, furnished by the Commissioners appointed for the purpose of redistributing the following States into Electoral Divisions for the election of Members of the House of Representatives, viz.: -
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– I regret that owing to circumstances over which I have no control the regulations to which the right honorable senator refers have not yet been tabled. I am now in a position to give the right honorable gentleman a definite assurance that they will be tabled to-morrow.
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Message received by the Senate intimating that Mr. Lazzarini and Mr. Tully, members of the House of Representatives, had been appointed members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, in the places of Mr. Curtin and Mr. Holloway, resigned.
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– It is with deep regret that I have to inform the Senate of the receipt from Mrs. J. H. Chapman of telegraphic advice of the death of Senator John Hedley Chapman, which occurred on the 14th March. On behalf of honorable senators I conveyed to Mrs. Chapman an expression of sympathy pending the more formal resolution of the Senate.
– by leave - I move -
That the Senate expresses its sincere regret at the death of the late Senator John Hedley Chapman, places on record its appreciation of his meritorious public service, and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement.
The late Senator Chapman, who was elected to the Senate in 1925, was well, and I am sure favorably, known to every honorable senator. Although during the whole of the time he was a member of this chamber he had most indifferent health, he always kept a brave face, and did his work well and truly for the people whom he represented. He was a general favorite, and discharged his duties conscientiously without hurting the feelings of others. I am sure that I am meeting the wishes of every honorable senator in submitting this resolution of sympathy. I was fond of the late honorable senator, and personally regret his death very sincerely.
Senator Sir GEORGE PEARCE (Western Australia) [3.14]. - I second the motion moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Barnes). On behalf of honorable senators on this side of the chamber, I join with the Minister in expressing our regret at the passing of our colleague. The late honorable senator displayed great courage in the face of physical disabilities and suffering. He was regular in his attendance in the Senate, and, as we all know, was most conscientious in the discharge of his parliamentary duties. I also desire to tender our sympathy to his widow and family in the loss they have sustained. We cannot gauge the extent of their loss; but we sympathize with them in their bereavement, and pay this tribute to the memory of one who always tried to do his duty to his country and the people who sent him here.
– On behalf of the Country party, of which the late honorable senator was a member, I desire to endorse the remarks of the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Barnes), and the right honorable the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Pearce). We feel that we have lost the services of a colleague who was conscientious, painstaking, and persevering in the discharge of his duties, and whose help was valued most highly by the Senate. Whatever opinion posterity may have concerning the work of the late honorable senator in the position which he occupied in this House, I think we all will agree that one valuable attribute that he possessed was that he always stood four-square to the policy he supported, and the promises he made to the electors who sent him to this chamber. During the whole of his term as a senator, he conscientiously advocated the policy that he thought was in the best interests of the State which he represented, and Australia as a whole. As the right honorable the Leader of the Opposition said, he frequently attended to the responsibilities of his position when he was physically unfit to do so, and we have no doubt that his devotion to duty hastened his untimely end. I have the greatest sympathy for his widow and his family, and feel that it is only right and proper that we, as members of the legislature to which he belonged, should send a formal message of sympathy to them.
– As one who was elected to this chamber on the occasion when the late Senator Chapman was returned as a representative of South Australia, I should like to voice my deep regret at the passing of the honorable senator, and to join in the expressions of sympathy that have been tendered by Senator Barnes, Senator Pearce, and Senator Carroll to his widow and family. I was personally aware how, at times, the honorable senator suffered, and I admired the fortitude and pertinacity which he displayed in attending, in such circumstances, to his duties. It was his earnest desire at all times to do his duty by those who sent him here, and his widow and family are entitled to any consolation that may come to them from the passing of this motion.
– On behalf of the representatives of South Australia on this side of the chamber, I should like to say how sincerely we regret the death of the late Senator Chapman. The demands made upon members of this Parliament are many and exacting, and death plays havoc in our ranks. Motions of this character are all too frequent. Senator Chapman was a most regular attendant, and his devotion to duty may possibly have hastened his death. He recognized the importance of his position, and, despite ill health, always took a direct and serious interest in the business of the Senate. It wag my privilege to know the late honorable senator for a number of years, during which period I learned to recognize his ability, and his conscientious devotion to duty, as well as his honesty and integrity. I regret his passing.
Senator Sir JOHN NEWLANDS (South Australia) [3.21]. - I also desire to express my sincere regret at the passing of Senator Chapman, and to add my meed to what has been said in praise of his many excellent qualities. A day or two before I left Adelaide for Canberra I had a telephone conversation with the bte honorable senator, and I noted his pleasure at the prospect of again taking up his duties in this chamber. Although Senator Chapman was in delicate health for a number of years, he still carried out his duties most conscientiously. Nothing was too much trouble in the way of research if only it would strengthen the appeal that he so frequently made on behalf of those whom he assisted to represent in this Parliament. He was most assiduous in looking up records and authorities to support his contentions. With other honorable senators, I deplore his passing; I regret that we shall see him here no more. I hope that the tributes to his memory by honorable senators this afternoon will be some comfort to hig widow and family in their ‘ bereavement. Nothing has been said to-day that Senator Chapman did not richly merit. With deep sorrow I add my tribute to the memory of a man who did his duty faithfully and well.
– Before putting the motion, I should like to associate myself, as President of the Senate, with the many eloquent tributes which have been paid to the memory of the deceased senator, and with the words that have been spoken in admiration of his courage in the adverse circumstances of ill health, his perseverance and firmness in never abandoning a point which he had taken up, and his loyalty to the people of the State which he so ably assisted to represent. I also associate myself with the sympathy with his widow and family which the motion voices.
The resolution and the speeches thereon will be forwarded to his widow and family in the usual way.
Question resolved in the affirmative, honorable senators standing in their places.
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Senator BARNES (Victoria - Vice-
President of the Executive Council) [3.24]. - As a mark of respect for the late honorable senator,I move -
That the Senate do now adjourn.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Senate adjourned at 3.25p.m.
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