1914 - 1924 - Parliament of New South Wales

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SPEAKE11Z (ronthwed) :-
Informs the House that efforts had been made to obtain conclusive evidence of death in action
at the Darjanelles of Licutenant-Colonel G. F. Braund and Sergcant E. R. Larkin, 82 .
Informs the House of pr9posed Lecture by Mr. C. C. Readc, Lecturer of the Garden Cities and
Town-planning Association, and tests House as to whether lie should leave the Chair from
6 o'clock'until 8 o'clock, 128-9 .
Calls attention to Legislative Council's amendments in Bills, as infringing the privileges of the
Legislative Assembly, 223, 430 .
Calls . attention to the fact that the, front Ministerial Bench was entirely for Cabinet Ministers
during Question time Members should be unimpeded as far as possible by interviews, 251 .
Authorised to place within the Chamber a fitting Memorial to rneiliory of Lieutenant-Colonel
. G. F. Braund and Serjeant Edward Rennix Larkin, 83 .
Unveils Permanent Memorial to memory of Lieutenant -Colonel G. F. Braund and Serjeant
E. R. Larkin, 257 .
Directs Acting Clerk t :) read report from Committee of Rlections and Qualifications, 167 .
Refers to presence of Honorable Member for Darling Harbour, Mr . Cochran, in the Chamber, and
reads extract from Votes and Proceedings relative to his suspension, 433 ; again refers to
'Mr. Cochran's presence and asks for an apology : Honorable Member refused ; adjudged
guilty of contempt and suspended for remainder of session, 434 .
RULINGS OF :-
That it was a matter of custom for notice of motion to be given by any Member having relation
to the introduction of Bills, before the House had disposed of the Address in Reply, 8 . -
That it was questionable whether the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public W~rks bad
power to dictate the policy by which any work sl-n6uld be carried out, whether by butty
gang system, day labour, or contract, 39 .
TIat it was quite competent for the Chairman of Committees, appointed in a previous Scission,
to act as Chairman NNithout any formality as be was Chairman until a motion ' dealing with
the Office for the Session had been dealt with, 51 .
That an aniendment to add words " and the House of Representatives to a motion to amend
the Co astitution of the Commonwealth of Australia to provide for representation of tile
states in the Senate, according to a population basis, was irrelevant, and was therefore
out of order, 59 ;
Tl~at Statutes had been passed by this House in which the Crown had been held amenable to
the law-there was power under the Constitution Act to bind the Crown-; therefore the
.provisions of clause 3 of the Fair Rents Bill were ill order, 114 .
That as the result of an amendment, in the Military and Naval Hospital Home Bill,' leaving
out tile words " wounded during the present war," the scope of the Bill was perhaps
slightly widened, though the object was not changed, and there had been no -great
infraction of tile 46th section of the Constitution Act, 103 .
That a motion respecting the e~piinging of any matter from the Records of the House could be
put directly to the House, with'Out notice~by coneu,rence,' 120 .
That the House, having ducided that the word " nine" should stand in an amendinent -to a
motion to fix the hours for the closing of hotels, it was competent to test the House on
another hour-notice of which amendment had been indicated, 131 .
That the Valuation of Land Bill (No . 2) did not exceed the Order of Leave, which was very wide
and definite ; -clause 64 was well within the Order . of
amendment of the Stamp DutiosAct, 131 .
Leave which definitely set forth an
That the question as to the Position of Business interrupted by Sessional Order giviil~
precedence of Government Business after 6-30 o'clock having arisen, he would, in future,
when the moment of interruption arrived, take the Debate as adjourned by the Sessional
Order, and the -Member in charge of the Business would be, required to name the date for
the resumption of the Debate, 157, 15S .
That the motion for adjournment under the 49th Standing Order respecting the moneys
subscribed by tile public to the Various Relief Funds was all-embracing, the matter already
set down on the Bu-iness Paper, to which reference had been made was specific,-t.he
motion was in order, 216,
T.hat the motion for adjournment under the 49th Standing Order,'respecting the critical state of
the North Sydney 'and the St . Leonard's- Hornsby Railway Suburbs IV, ater Supply and
Sewerage S) steni, would anticipate discussion, which could take 'place in Committee of
Supply or of Ways %nd %leans, in view of the fact that the Estimates of Expenditure for
1915-16 had already been Tabled, 221 .
That motion for adjournment under the 49th Standing Order, respecting the proposal for
transporting this season's Wheat, &c ., . would not anticipate
Motion already on the Notice Paper, 1227 .
Debate on Notice of
. .hat the motion for the adjournment under the 49th Standing Order, respecting certain
alleged utterances by Mrs . Gordon Wesche, an executive meni~er of the Red Cross Society,
with regard to the execution of Nurse Cavell, was of definite urgent public importance and
of recent occurrence, the Society had charae of a large sum of money subscribed b.V the
public and the administration of the fund -became a matter of public criticism-and was
therefore in order, 230 .
That the Public Accountants Bill was not out of order and did not affect trade. This Bill was on
allfours'Witli the Medical Practitioners Bill, which -was . souglit to be ruled out of order in
i1112, on that occasion Mr . Speaker McCourt held that the' word " trade " -applied'to the
.tc,c!lan,de of commodities in the way of business and not to the admission of-persons to
practice the medical profession, 239 .
That tile Notice of Motion respecting alleged guarding of premises of Herr Sabiel would be
permitted to appear oil Notice Paper if the motion was in accord with the Standing Order
The Honorable Member giving Notice would -be responsible
statements that might. appear therein, 251 .
for the veracity of the
Refe . ring to 9-previous Notice of Motion respecting Police Protection of a shop in Hunter-
: street (Herr Sabiels') (which formed tile subject of a ruling on 24th November) .Mr . Speakel
further stated reasons for giving his 'previous -rUliDg by allowing the Notice to appear on tht
Business Paper, 253-4 .
That the Notice of Motion fii.r'~djoiirnment~ under the.4kh Standing Order respecting excessive
charge to be debited against wheat-growers for receiving, handling, and placing their wheat
for.shipment, f .o .b ., could be diseussed under tile Estimates-Department of* Agriculture,
and was therefore out of order, 252 .