Adjournment. [12. MAR;, 19:3U.] Birds and. Animals Bill. 3671 lfi; BADTI~LEY (Cessnock) [10.35] : tions to thee Federal Government asking r desire to bring under the notice of the it to rescind the regulations it has npw (}overnment the fact that quite a.number in operation, when I could take action <>f my constituents are being injuriously under the Plant. Diseases Act to prevent .affected by the importation of citrus American citrus entering this State. fruits into this State. They have ap­ Whilst the American Government main­ pealed for protection against such action tains its attitude this State can do noth­ :again and again. This year the quantity ing to override the Federal regulations. :has exceeded that of the previous year. If the Federal Government rescinds its The present Government claims to pro­ regulations controlling the importation tect farmers and orchardists, yet only of American fruit I will take action, in this week at Gosford a very representa­ view of the fact that it is very probable tive gathering entered an emphatic pro­ the importation of such fruit will bring test against the Government's inactivity. disease into the State and cause injury Oranges .and lemons· are coming here to the orchard industry. I have made from Italy, the United States and other representations to the Federal authori­ parts of the world. ties on more than one occasion, and have Mr. THORBY: That is a matter for the received from them formal and abso­ Federal Government! lutely non-committal acknowledgments; Mr. BADDELEY: When Mr. Bruce Everything possible has been done by my :and Dr. Earle Page. were in office; what department to prevent Americans from was done by the Federal Government~ dumping their citrus fruit into this What has the Minister done with the StatP., but until the Federal Government l'ederal Government to protect the reS'Cinds its regulatitms I can do no more. <>rchardists of this State~ I consider If the Commonwealth Government will these people are justified in the conten­ rescind those regulations or in other tion they have raised. I again ask, is words, get out o:f the road, the New this Government going to make repre­ South Wales Government will prevent :sentations to the Government of the the importation o:f American citrul!l Comonwealth ~ Is it prepared to stand fruits. up to the Federal authorities. If not, Question resolved in the affirmative. it is the duty of the Minister to. tell the House adjourned at 10.40 p.m: people who depend upon this fruit for their living. I ask the Minister to make :a statement for the information of those who claim the protection of the Gov­ -U..tg.h5Iatibt ~aundl. €rnment. Mr. THORBY: (Castlereagh), Min­ Thursda'!f, 13 March, 1930. ister for Agriculture [10.37] : In re­ Jlly to the hon. member, I desire to Crown Lands (Amendment) Rill-Birds and Animals say that I have had the figures taken Protection (Amendment) Bill'--Guardianship of out since 1921. In 1922. there were prac­ Infants· Bill-Transport ·mu (second reading)­ tically no importations into this country A·ozac Memoriru Building. from America-only nine cases of 'Oranges entered New South Wales. In The PREsim:NT' took the chair. 1923 that number was considerably in­ ·creased. At that time this State was ex­ CROWN LANDS (AMENDMENT) BILL. JlOrting some thousands' of cases· of ·oranges per annum. In 1923 the Ameri­ Bill read a third time. can Government placed an absolute em­ bargo upon the importation of Austra­ BIRDS AND ANIMALS PROTECTION lian citrus fruit into America,. and from (AMENDMENT) .BILL. that day on not one case of Australian Bill received from the Legislative citrus fruit has· entered' the United Assembly and (on motiont by the Hom States.. I have since· made representa~ J. Ryan) read a first time. 3672 Infants Bill. [COUNCIL.] Transport B i~l. ·.GUARDIANSHIP OF INFANTS BILL. users on the trust: My counsel instructs me to ask your consideration and support of Bill returned from the Legislative thoss amendments which we propose to ask Assembly with amendments. Parliament to make to prevent any extension of Government trading. We do not wish to TRANSPORT BILl •. wre.ck the bill, which we believe, on the whole, to be reasonable :mel necessary, and SECOND READING. while regretting c~rtain things, 'vill not The Ron. F. S. BOYCE moved: raise any save essential points. That this bill be now read a second time. Nor have I heard, anywhere, any body He said: I feel certain that every mem­ of opinion against thi3. measure, which, ber of the House listened with pleasure as I hope to demonstrate, is completcl,v to th~ speech of my learned friend, Mr. neceEsary in the' interest'l of the Stat\'. W. A .. Holman, KC. His grace of dic­ The circular is signed as being from the tion, his apt phrases, and his elegant :Motor Traders' Association. The nameii language would invest the driest subject of certain officers are given. I will not with interest. I think it was Oscar read al.l the names, but it is signd hy Wilde who said of himself, in "the Ballad the secretary. of Reading Gaol," that he was "a lord The Hon. A. C. WILLIS: What is the pf words," and I think t'-at might very date of that letter? well be applied to Mr. Holman, who is The Hon. F. S. BOYCE: The lOth no stranger to the legislative halls o£ of M~rc~-two days ago. A.pparently, this country. But he was briefed for a at the same moment when they handed client, and he was careful, all through Mr. Holman the brief, they wrote this l1is address, to make that position per­ letter to you gentlemen of the Legisla­ fectly clear. He was briefed for some tive Council. That is where we bar­ of the bus-owners of Sydney. But I hold risters come in. I guarantee there was a higher brief than his. I appear for not one hon. member here who gathered the puolic of New South Wales. And, from the speech of Mr. Holman that notwithstanding the artistry which Mr. that was the attitude of the clients he Holman has at his command, I believe represented. that I have public opinion Eolidly be­ The Hon. Sir JOSEPH CARRUTHERS= hind the Government on this measure. They used a double-barrel gun! The very clients whom Mr. Holman The Ron. F. S. BOYCE: The hon. represented are in favour of this bill. member is an old lawyer and he knows They did not favour me with a copy of that a double-barrelled gun is about the this circular which, I understand,. they worst thing- one can have in a case. Stick sent to every other hon. member of this to· one barrel. If you try two you arc House except my colleagues, but it is apt to fail with both. I have nothing dated the lOth March, which was after to say against the clients whom }fr. the bill left the Legislative Assembly. 'Holman represented. So far as I know, :Mr. F. H. Stewart is one of the mem­ they are a decent body of men wh-7 bers of this association, and Mr. Davies have amassed large fortunes during a iG the secretary, and the circular is ad­ very few years, and I can understand dressed, apparently, to every member of they will leave no stone unturned to the Legislative Council. It reads: protect their financial interests. They run their buses along the streets for the Dear Sir,-The Transport Bill will come before the Legislative Council this week.· use of which they do not pay. They pass For several months the Motor Traders' Asso­ through municipalities where they do ciation has been in communication with the not pay one brass farthing in rates. ~i~istc; for Local Government and many d1fficultles have been satisfactorily settled The Ron. W. :F. LATIMER: Neither d0 the Minister's attitude having been reason: the trams! able and jll:st. On two very vital points, The Hon. F. S. BOYCE: The trams ~,oweve~, whJCh ~ffect the security of private have to make and maintain the road ente~pn~e we failed to agree, first on arbi­ tration m place of fixed compensation, and over which they run and 18 inches on t~~«~ndly the representation of road· motor each side. Otherwise the bon. member :Z1ransport Bill. [13 MAR., 1930.] Transport Bill. 3673 is perfectly .correct. Take the muni­ interest'' are always to be the guiding cipality of Newtown, which is a fair force .. One of the earliest clauses in example. I do not know how many the bill is clause 12, and it will give a lines of buses run through 'Newtown, fair example of what the trust is to do. using the roads and no doubt doing Clause 12 reads: great damage to them, but I will guar­ ( 1) A trust constituted by or under tl1is antee that there is not one bus that Act shall, within its district, be charged pays one farthing to the Newtown muni­ with the powers, duties, and obliga1ions im­ cipality by way of rates. That must posed by this Act. It shall adopt all mea­ sures tending to ensure adequate supervi­ apply to a large number of buses which sion and regulation in the public interest run to and from Sydney. of all public road tran-sport and omnibus , The Eon.. Sir JOSEPH · CARRUTHERS : services operating in its district for the­ .conveyance of passengers. What becomes of their license fee? ( 2) A ·trust shall take -all necessary steps The Eon.