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[COUNCIL.] £C700 or more a year in an attempt to keep with regard to the lamented departure of the mosquitoes in check. I hope that with one of our number, Mr. Greig. No words the co-operation of the City Council we shall of mine could lie more fitting than these be able to carry out the admirable scheme tittered by the Leader of the House, and I for the reclamation of the foreshore. The shall not attempt to improve upon them. Minister for Works lies taken a keen and The same remark applies to the welcome enthusiastic interest in the matter and I hope extended by various members to 'Mr. he may be retained in his present position Olasheen. To judge by Mr. Glasheen's able for many years to come so that he may be speech of Inst week, much may be expected able to givec eff ect to the scheme. from. the new member. The speeches al- On motion by Mr. Clydesdale, debate ad- read *y made on the motion before the Chair journed. have beean interesting- and instructive, and it mnight lie saidl that during the debate we have travelled from Dan to Beersheba. All LAPSED BILL-RESTORATION. sorts of compl~laints and all sorts of require- council's messa ge. nieuts have heei voiced,' and every member Message from the Council received and has viewed the situation from his own lpar- read requesting the Assembly, in accordance ticular standpoint. This is only what might with the Staindingl Orders relating to lapsed he expected from a debate on a motion of Bills, to resume consideration of the Bills such elasticity a s that under consideration. of Sale Act Amendment Bill. No doubt those who in the first instance On motion by Mr. Taylor, ordered That gwranted such a wide rang-e of ground to be consideration of the Council's message be travelled over were wise in their geinera- made an Order of the Day for the next sit- tion. The A ddres-i n-reply enables inen- ting of the House. hers to forecast the requirements of their p~rovinces for the information of the Oov- House adjorurned (it 10.38 p.m. erment. Unless I, as a representative of the .. etropoli lan-Suburban Province, raise my voice on the same subject, it will he assumed that there is nothing whatever re- quiired in my province, but that everythin~g in the garden is lovely. The Governor's Speech makes early reference to the State's financial position. Hon. members have ex- pressed their individual views as to what has led to thea success achieved. Amiong-st legislative Council, other things it has b~een claimed that the Thursday, 2014 Augiost. 192.5. Very substantial reduction of the deficit dur- ing the past 12 months is the immediate result of the progressive policy of group PA"CF settlement initiated by Sir James M11itchell. Addressdn-rcply, AMendment .................... 400 I shall not say that it is not so, but I feel bound to exprt-ss my views, so that my con- stituents wvill kinoxv exactly where I stand The T'RES1IENT took the Chair at 4.3 on the financial qniestion. I have no hesi- p.m., ard read prayers. tation in expressing my conviction that the Success achieved is attributable chiefly to the foresig-ht of Sir James Mitchell in open- ADDRESS-IN-flEPLY. inz up the eastern wheat belt years ago. Tenth Day-. trnndment. H'is op'tiniism in that direction aroused en- Debate resumed from the previous day. Ihuisiasin amongst people in city avocations, .any of whom wient into the country and HON. J. DUPPELL (Mfetropolitan-Sub- began growing- wheat, That fact, combined urban) [4.361: 1 desire to subsceribe to the with the bountiful season and the good prices views so ably expressed1 by the ILeader of realised for wheat and wool, exsplained the the House at the opening& of the session financial improvement. I was glad to hear [2'0 AuGusT, 1925.] 401 similar views expressed by Mr. Olasheen. It of the ig-rants. It is true that some have is well known that people who have re- :iveii tip in despair and got back into the mnained on the wheat areas for any length city: and towns. ']hait is only to be ex- (if time have made good, and now find them- p eced; but, taking all things into consid- selves in a piosition very different from that elation, it call be said that the percentage which they' would have occupied had they' of' those who have stuck to their task and adhered to their city avocations. In vieV mde good will compare favourably with of the short time dfuring which (lie group the migrants in Canada or in an.% other settlemniclt sthetiac has been in operation, olie louti(of the British IDominions. I have not caninot expect it to have as yet any' visible had a very large experience of those oil effect upon the finances of the State. The the group settlements in I he South-West, but Governor's Speech makes p~romninenit men)- Ihave stevejal times visited the Peel Estate. tion of the ubject of igration. D ifferent Only* a fort night ago I was again dowvn on views have been expressed by hon). meni- thant estate, and I visited Croup 64. There hers as to wa vs and means of lplacing 1 met settlers who had come out from Lon- inigranls on Iliw hllnd and zis to the t vpe don. Toiling onl their blocks they were per- of men requiiired. It is interestinRg to con- fectly happy. They had had 13 inches sider file various opinions expressed as to (if rain during the previous three weeks. the propler type of migrant. 11r. Burvill I mention this that members mayv realise suggested thaft the mn should have agri- that the out-of-door conditions were not the ptlturni training before they left the Old most inviting. I asked one settler what lie Counitry. No member to whom the con- thoup,t of his changed position in life, and (litions prevaliling at I-onme are known could lie said, "T am quite satisfied. I am going- make such a sugrestion. Four years ago to make good." it was my privilege to visit England, and H~on. 'T. Moore: is he still on sustenance? wile there I went to various provincial flon. 4. DUFFELL: Yes, he is. I saw towns and travelled north, south, east and four others. They were engaged in clearing wvest. I had the opportunity of meeting and Jpreparing the land for their crops. I somne of the men high in Imperial counsels, tied at look at their homes, spoke with their and to exchangec ideas with them onl the wives and children, and found them all subject of migration. From the asp~eet of contented and happy. Passing along secondary industries I said I could not offer to another group I found a meeting much encouragement for tradesmen to conic beiin held of mn who were desirous of here. I exp~lainefd that Western Australia securing hospital accommodation for the was a country of magnificent distances, tre- district. To show that they were willing to failie: yr oti trendous areas, wonderful climate, and good help~ themselves, 369l soil, and possessed facilities for helping lbuting Is. 6d. per week towards the main- those not well situated to help themselves temnne of the proposed hosp~ital. It is frot a financial aspect. I said that the gratifying to be able to state that, since men Western Australia was crying, out for then, the Government have granted the re- were those who had been engaged in ag9ri- ejuest and are about to build a hospital, which those "69 cultural pursuits. And bow do you think families will maintain by their contributions. It goes to show that I was met? Tt was explained to me by men the migrants on the Peel Estate are endea- in high Iositions that they had hundreds vonring to make good, and are happy and oif thousands of men who, as a result of the contented and altogether in a better posi- war, were out of employment, and that, so tion thman they- woul d have b~eeni had they far tromt ,in---ing out the fewv accustomed to remained in the Old] Country. The future agricultural put suits, it was desire,[ to find of the grop settlements is causing anxiety, emiploymient for all, even the artisan class. not only' to the one who formulated the It wvas said to me, "If you can et a good sel~cme, but also to those members of Par- healthy type, such as our artisanus, out the, e lianient who were in tile House when the they wvill soin adapt themselves to circum- scheme was first lanched. I remember stancves and mnake good." There is a great when we had a Bill before uts providing for deal of truth in that statement, as contiined a railway from Pemberton to Denmark. The by i'lr. Ewing, Mr. Willmott, and others, Pill was not viewed favourably by a ma- when referring to the operations of some jaritY of tie House, and eventually it [COUNCIL.] found its way into the waste paper for comment. It is in the majority report, Ibasket amidst a howl from some of those and no exception is taken. to it in the responsible for group settlements. We minority report. Tihe finding reads as fol- were informed by the Premier of the day, lows.- Sir James Mitchell, that the railway was Tire susteniance prorisious of the schenie part and parcel of his scheme, and tha t have had a deuioralisiug eff ect upon the set- unless he got the line thre scheme in that tlers, arid have been the chief cause of the high cost of group work.

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