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Legislative Assembly Hansard 1911 Queensland Parliamentary Debates [Hansard] Legislative Assembly WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 1911 Electronic reproduction of original hardcopy 250 Police Jurisdirdion, Etc., Bill. .] Address in Reply . LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. \VEDNESDAY, 26 JULY, 1911. Armstrong, at 3 o'clock. DEATH OF HON. J. T. BELL. qUES'riON. CLAIM BY OwNERS oF s.s. "\VAIPAJJ.A." Mr. DOUGLAS (Cook) asked the Premier, without notice-- Tho PRE?\1IER (Hen. D. F. Denham, Oxley) replied- has been settied ; the amount was }'-DDRESS IN REPLY. RESUMPTION OF D>JBATE. Mr. ALLAN (B1·isbane South): . In con­ tinuing this discussion I do not mtend to take up the time of the House more than a very' few minutes, and will express what I have to say ir. a very few sentences. l consider this debate as a great waste of time. It is >certainly carrying on an .old custom. but I fail to see that any practical good c[m result from snch a waste of time. \Ve all hopp, and dasire to get on with the· business of the session, and I, for one, would like very much if this debate were closed so as to allow the Estimates to be placed bofor<' us and discussed. ' ·we talk to the air; We fill Ha.nsard, and all for what purpose' It is all empty talk so far as ':'ny good result is concerned. There was a trme when the di8cussion on the Address in Reply was of some real value, but times have changed very much. Parliament has changed. A great wave of democracy has a:isen, and. I think some of the old customs tnat are strll perpetuated might with advantage be done away with. It is not as if we had not suffiCient opportunity in this House to express our grievances. I can f":lly sympa­ thise wit.h and support the actwn of the leader of the Opposition in moving the· adjournment of the House to d_iscuss a par­ ticular object. That is all as rt should be, and results in some general usefulness. Bt!t this endless debate day after day, this academic fireworks, I look upon as a great waste of valuable tirne. Mr. MULCAHY: Why don't you sit down? Mr. ALT"AN: We are now in the third Trcek of the session, and n1ight go on for ,somo ti1ne, and when_ it is all over, jl!dging hv the experience of the nast., we wtll get the same thing- dished up to us on the Est.i­ mates, and during the discussion of the- Address in Reply. [26 Jur.Y.] Address in Reply. 251 various Bills. I could do as other hon. No, not highly-paid members have done-I could take the are the worst paid Address and refer to the different measures Australia. I think to be brought before the House. I have not to {l'ive consideration seen the Bills, hut that would mimng industry is a ~:ne d.iscu~si:ng them, as I could the view that we are 1magmatwn as to what they of the industry. We But that is enti relv a was+e wealth in Queensland. intend,, from place in cthe are you going to do fully discuss various Bills a lot for it. For as opportunity arises, but I many of the old remarks I have mako production by en­ occasion, when I T There has discuss the various matters- more cc•nrtaEmJCll the indus­ We have there South Australia has South Wales. : Yes. Our railways are a and it necessarily follows discuss acquire coalmines, and there is a best interests of the State. alteration in years the most of these coalbeds there will be a acquired by private enterprise, discuss the different some hon. members are always prais­ so, I. hope it will be up by some up. The position will be that later on p~ovision bemg made so each Estimate we will have to pay whatever private cn­ will get .a reasonab_Je amount of discussion, terpnse charges us for coal. The Govern­ beca~se m the ordmary way, if you fix a Inent would be wise to make provision in certam number of days-seventeen or eig-h­ this direction. I would like to give an t~en, as the case may be-the whole of that; illustration to show why the Government time may bH occupied in discussing the should assist deep sinking. They have given Ho~e Secretary's and two or three other some small grants on the u-ympie Goldfield. Est~~ates, ar;d then all the other Estimates Some few years ago, through the instru­ -Mmes, Ra1lways, and other Estimates mentality of Mr. Dunstan, who gave a towards the . end of the list-there will be favourable report on the mine, the Govern­ no opportumty afforded to discuss these. ment, after a great deal of pressing, gave· £750 towards the sinking of a shaft. The The SECRETARY FOR RAILWAYS: That is what ha)2_pcmed last year. sum was small, I will admit, but it induced people to put their money into it. It was not the amount given which weighed so Mr. MULCAHY: That is exactly what much, but the favourable report of the Go­ happened last year, and I do not want to vernment Geologist. The shareholders con­ see ~ recurrence. If there is any use for tributed in calls £14,000. They got on to· Parhament at ail, this is the place where payable gold, and have repaid the Govern­ we. have an opportunity to bring forward ment with 5 per cent. interest--which I grievances and thresh them out, and just think was too much-for the whole of that let m'? say at the outset that I think one period. They have declared £4,000 or very 1111QOrtant industry in this State has £5,000 in dividends, and they are still on not recCived the attention from this Go­ good payable stone. vernment, or mdeed frc'm any Government ;or a n_umbcr of )•ears, that it should receive: An OPPOSITION MEMBER: What mine is .rhat IS the mming industry. The total that? val11e of the gold yield is something like £72,100.196, and other minerals have given Mr. MULCAHY: No. 3 North Columbia us £~3,972,526, or a total of £96.072,722. Smithfield. Another mine in the same That IS to the end of 1910. and to ·the end locality paid the Government back money of the present year, I suppose we can safelv advanced a few years ago. Even if we have say the total ~ield will be. £100,000,000. The a number of failures, a few mines which Gove~nment, It .seems to ;ne, is not paying turn out well g·ive employment to scores of sufficient attentwn to this mdustry. Just men, and induce settlement. There are no look at the Min8s report! 'I'he Go..:-ernment better settlers than the miners. I just men­ Geologist in his renort says his staff i~ tion this to show that the Government overworked, and will be so until his staff need have no fear about advancing a little is doubled. Yet I see no reference to anv money to assist prospecting and deep sink­ increase in .that ,,taff, and if we are goinir ing, but they are not doing it at all. It is to do an:vthmg for the mining industry. we not my purpose this afternoon to make a must ha.ve a theoretical man as well' as a long speech, but I want to say a word or nractiea} man, end I think if vou have a two with regard to the commission which Government Geolo~Sist, and :vou 'nut him at. has just furnished its report. I recognise the hPad of the depq,rtment~ and he mak~es that the commission had a difficult task in a plain statemeni; of t.hat kind, then this getting evidence, and that is only natural, House should nav some attention to it. because a man might think it would affect IHPnr. hear!) It. is not a bit of use having his position in the mine if he voluntarily a Government Geologist or any important came along and gave evidence. Whilst man at the head of any department-- there are many useful recommendations made, I would like to say in regard to Mr. LENNON: Highly-paid experts. men suffering from miners' phthisis and Mr. Mulcalty.l 252 [AS£EMBLY.] Address in Replp. ''ther chest complaints, that it would be to say a word or two on-that is with re­ very unfair to these men to be knocked off gard to our land rangers and commissioners. ·Or to be interfered with in any way, . unless They get small pay, and they are alloweu the Government-and I contend that it is to dabble in land, I do not think that is a the. duty of the State to do it-makes pro­ good thing at all; I think it is a great mis­ VISion to settle them on the land or give take. them some other employment. I think it Mr. \VALKER: They have as much right rather a good idea, as the commission sug­ as members of Parliament. gest, to require men who have not been mining to be examii1ed before they start. Mr. MULCAHY: A member of Parlia­ I am glad the commission has made some ment may take up land, but he has to get 'll.Seful suggestions, but I think much more it direct from the State. There is this dif­ might have been done.
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