Cruelty to Animals Bill [3 APR., 1973] Questions without Notice 4267 those in charge of the establishment would Mock Auctions Bill facilitate that. The Hon. N. K. Wran has Workers' Compensation (Insurance) Bill asked whether it is provided in the bill. My The following bill was returned from the answer is that it is not provided in it, and Legislative Council with an amendment: I do not think I said it was. Printing and Newspapers Bill The Hon. N. K. WRAN: I am not sug­ gesting that the query was fobbed off. SALE OF LIQUOR AT UNIVERSITIES The Hon. F. M. HEWITT: To the best PETITION of my knowledge officers of the Royal Mr CAMERON presented a petition praying Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to that the Legislative Assembly will take no Animals have never been prevented from action to legalize the sale of alcohol on making inspections. The people who will university campuses. be appointed by the Government to do this will be as prescribed in the amendment. Petition received on motion by Mr Cameron. Amendment agreed to. Clause as amended agreed to. QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE ADOPTION OF REPORT ADVERTISING IN CORROBOREE Bill reported from Committee with Mr HILLS: I ask the Premier and Trea­ amendments, and report adopted, on motions surer a question without notice. The Pre­ by the Hon. F. M. Hewitt. mier might recall that in October, 1970, the House adjourned, on motion by the honourable member for Burrinjuck asked Hon. J. B. M. Fuller, at 11.12 p.m. him a question whether Corroboree, the journal of the Permanent Building Societies Association, had refused to accept an adver­ tisement from the Australian-owned Mort­ U..rrtt£>Iattbc ~~hsrntbl~ gage Guaranty Insurance Corporation, while at the same time it was willing to accept Tuesday, 3 April, 1973 advertisements from Mortgage Indemnity Corporation of Australia, an almost wholly Bill Returned-sale of Liquor at Universities (Petition) American-owned company. Was the reply -Questions without Notice-Electricity Commis­ to that question given in November, 1970, sion (Superannuation) Amendment Bill (third reading)-Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority and in that answer did the Premier and (Amendment) Bill (third reading)-Government Railways Act: Disallowance of Regulation­ Treasurer fail to disclose the reason why Motor Traffic and Transport (Amendment) Bill Corroboree had refused to accept an adver­ (third reading)-Institute of Rural Studies Bill (Int.)-Therapeutic Goods and Cosmetics Bill tisement from the Australian company? Will (Int.)-Housing and Public Works (Amendment) the Premier inform the House why he with­ Bill (lnt.)-Firearms and Dangerous Weapons Bill (second reading)-Adjournment (North Coast held the result of his investigations, which Medical Services)-Printed Question and Answer. he undertook to give to the House, and why, when giving his answer in November, 1970, Mr SPEAKER (THE RoN. SIR KEVIN he refused to give details of why these adver­ ELLIS) took the chair at 2.30 p.m. tisements had been repudiated? Was it be­ cause the Premier and Treasurer condoned Mr SPEAKER offered the Prayer. the actions of Corroboree, which gave favourable treatment to an American-owned BILLS RETURNED company, which raised $1,352,000 in pre­ miums and paid out only $3,200 in claims The following bills were returned from in the previous year? the Legislative Council without amendment: Co-operation and Other Acts (Amendment) Sir ROBERT ASKIN: October, 1970, is Bill some two and a half years ago, and I am Electricity Development (Amendment) Bill sure that the Leader of the Opposition would 4268 Questions without Notice [ASSEMBLY] Questions without Notice realize that I could not possibly be expected received that report, but I understand from to know the exact terms of the question my discussion with the commissioner this and the precise answer given. I remember morning that it confirms what the honour­ vaguely the honourable member for Burrin­ able member for Willoughby implies in his juck asking a question about Corroboree; question, namely that the priority road the name stuck in my mind. I assure the system on Victoria Road has been an out­ Leader of the Opposition and the House standing success, not only in regard to that, to my knowledge, nothing was with­ traffic flow, but also in the reduction of held intentionally. If some information minor accidents and collisions which pre­ which should have been in the answer was viously were prevalent. not in it, that was purely inadvertent. I shall look at it as quickly as possible and see It has been suggested by the honourable whether we can correct that situation. member for Fuller that some additional sets of traffic lights are needed on Victoria Road The Leader of the Opposition knows to bring into full effect the benefits of the from his own experience that when the system. With that I agree. Traffic light in­ responsible Minister is asked a question stallations have been programmed in one about a matter outside his knowledge, he or two sections of the road, and that work has to rely on the advice of his officers. will be undertaken as soon as the lights are They draft a reply to the question, the available. When I have read the report of Minister looks at it, and if it seems all right, the Commissioner for Motor Transport I the answer is given. That practice bas been shall be happy to give the honourable going on since long before I came into member for Willoughby and the House office, and I am sure it will go on long more information about the matter. I can after I have left. However, I reassure the say at this stage that the establishment of Leader of the Opposition that if anything a priority road is a costly business, in­ was overlooked, it was purely by inadver­ volving heavy expenditure on traffic signals, tance. I am not sure at this stage of the the alteration of road works and so on. significance of the Leader of the Opposi­ As soon as the Government can afford it I tion's question: apparently something is believe we shall see the extension of the worrying the honourable gentleman. I shall priority road system-and I shall deal only have another look at it. I shall have the with the electorate of the honourable mem­ papers taken out, the purport of the ques­ ber for Willoughby, for that is the area in tion examined, and I shall get as much in­ which he is particularly interested-to the formation as I possibly can as quickly as Pacific Highway in the North Sydney area. I can. N.S.W. PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY PRIORITY ROAD SYSTEM FOR PACIFIC LIMITED HIGHWAY Mr EINFELD: My question without Mr McGINTY: I ask the Minister for notice is directed to the Premier and Treas­ Transport whether the give-way rule on urer. Did Sir John Pagan, a former presi­ major roads in New Zealand has proved dent of the New South Wales ,branch of an outstanding success. Will the Minister the Liberal Party of Australia, obtain a inform the House of the results of the Vic­ loan of $100,000 from the N.S.W. Per­ toria Road experiment in Sydney, and say manent Building Society Limited as a mort­ whether he has any plans to extend the gage seventeen years after he acquired his system to roads such as the Pacific High­ home at Point Piper in order to assist him way? to purchase it? At the time of the granting Mr MORRIS: The Commissioner for of this loan was there a delay of up to six Motor Transport advised me this morning months in the granting of loans to genuine that he had sent to me yesterday a full home purchasers by the N.S.W. Permanent report on the operation of the priority Building Society Limited? Did general system on Victoria Road. I have not yet advertisements by the N.S.W. Permanent Questions without Notice [3 APR., 1973] Questions without Notice 4269 Building Society Limited seeking deposits able member asked whether it was a fact from members of the community emphasize that the advertisements of the society state that such money was generally to be used that generally the money raised by the to assist home purchasers? Did the grant society is made available for small loans for of the mortgage to Sir J obn Pagan, a housing purposes. If 96.8 per cent of the director of the N.S.W. Permanent Building money loaned was for comparatively small Society Limited, prevent at least five families loans to home buyers and builders, the ad­ from obtaining the average loan that would vertisement is true: generally speaking the be needed in each case to purchase a house money is made available for that purpose. in which they could reside? If the article is correct and 3.2 per cent is made available for bridging loans of more Sir ROBERT ASKIN: This matter was than $50,000 the remainder, 96.8 per cent, raised in the House last week. I thought went to small loans. As I have said, the the facts were made pretty clear then. It Minister for Housing and Minister for Co­ was agreed that Sir John Pagan obtained operative Societies, through the Registrar of a loan of $100,000 on his home. It was Co-operative Societies, is making a close agreed that he paid the full ruling rate of examination of the whole position and as interest that was charged at the time for soon as I have received something official this type of loan as distinct from a small I shall be able to tell the House more.