[4 SEPTMSna, 1923.] 'Mr. Pickering:. What about the farmer? The MINISTER FOX RAIWAYS re- Mr. MARSHLL: I ant battling for the plied: 1, No. 2, See No. 1. 3, Yes, and farmer, too. Farmers will have to pay a tenders have been invited in Australia. and license for every gun, and it is not right to Great Britain for 20 boilers. 4. The C"hief burden them with such nn imupost. Outside Mechanic-al Engineer. 5 a nd( 6, See -No. 1. the metropolitan area the measure will be 7, No specific number can he laid down; an- unworkable. If we do not wish to make law- nual requirements vary in periods corres- breakers of the people, ire should pass only ponding with those when large blocks of loco- laws that are reaspuable. I protest also motives were placed on traffic. As, for in- egainst the high fees proposed. stance, in 1901, 1902, and 1903 107 locoino- tives were put into use. These are now int On motion by Mr. Bron, debate adjourned. course of requiring boiler replacements, giv- ing estimated requirements of 47 boilers for House adjourned at 10.15 P.M. 1923-24, 46 for 1924-25, whereas only 22 are estimated to be needed for 1025-26. The position in regard to boilers is referred to at paragraphs 17 and 3ff of the Commissioner 'a Annual Report, 1923. 8, Year ended 30-6-18, 6; 30-6-19, 4; 30-6-20, 8; 30-6-21, 9; 30-6-22, 9; 30-6-23, 15. 9, B oilers made in loco. shops are as good in quality as any hitherto imported. The tenders now being invited will enable a comparison -of costs to be made; the last boilers, 10 in number, were imported in 1911. tegtelative EeebV QUESTION-KENDENUP SETTLERS. Tuesday, 4th Sept ember, 1925. Mr. HUGHES asked the Premier: 1, Is he aware that settlers are leaving Kendenup, and that ublesa fertilisers and seeds are pro- Pag vided for the remaining settlers, it will he, Questions:- Railways, loo. bolesm........ 545 Sestdenup settlers .. .. 545 impossible for this season's crops to be Diabetes, IanlIn treatment .. 545 planted? 2, If so, is it the intention of the Pape: industrial Development, advances .. BrflsElectric Light and Power Agreement Amend.- 548 Government to do anything to keep the set- meat, l. ............. ... tlers on their holding? 3, If the answer to 1'lnjarra-Dwarda Railway Extension Act 546 Amendment. Ss. .......... question (2) be in the affirmiative, what ne- Inspection of Scaffoldhng. 2a.. .... 548 tion is it proposed to take? Redistribution of Seats, 2R........... 548 Industrirs Assistance Act Continuance, 2R... 68 The PREMIER replied: 1, No, hut I1 am aware that crops cannot be grown without seed and fertiliser. 2, The State Government was not, and is not responsible for the sub- The SrEAKER took the Chair at 4.30 p.m., division and settlement of Kendenup Estate. and rpad prayers. It has offered, snbjec9 to the company's agrLement to provide security over the land, to make advancees for the purchase of seed QUESTION-RAILWAYS, LOCO. and fortiliser and for sustenance, and this BOILERS. offer is still open. There has been made Mr. WtILLCOCK asked the Mfinister fur available £2,000 for works in tile vicinity to Railways: .1, Ts it a fact that there is a provide emnploymient for settlers, and £50 has shortage of boilers at the Loco. Shops which been granted for relief through the Charities will materially impede the preparation of en- Department. The estate has now been of- gines for the current year? 2, What 'is the fered to the Government, and the offer will extent of the shortage? 3, Is it a fact that be sent on to the Land Purchase Board. 31, a recommendation has been made that boilers Answered by No. 2. he impcrteil? 4, Which officer of the Rail- way Department is responsible for Saab re- cwinntation, if any? 5, Which officer nf QLUESTION--DIABETES, INSULIN thle Railway Department is responsible for the SUPPLIES. Shortage of boilersi 6, When was the short- M-%r.LUTEY asked thle Colonial Secretary: age first reported by the officer responsible? 1. Are sup-plies of insulin for the cure of 7, Is it a fact that the number of new boilers diabetes procurable in the State of Western required to keep np the equipment of theP Australia? 2, If not, will he try n- rcrrcr locos. in the Railway Department is approzi- a supplyIyad arately 14 per year? S, 'What is the number that has been built for eacb of the past six The COLONIAL SECRETARY replied: 1, years? 9, Is it not n faent that boilers of as A Small Supply of insulin, sufficient for the goad quality can be built as cheaply at the treatment of one case of diabetes, has been Loco. Shops as imported boilers cost? inade available to the Honorary Medical Staff 546 [ASSEMBLY.] of the Perth Public Hospital. No other sup- duced until anl outcry is made that all these ply is available. 2, It is expected that more things should be subject to inspection. w~ill be available shortly, when a supply wvill Mir. A. Thomson: -I did not intend to coll- hie procured? vey that. Mr. DAVIES: Building in Western Aus- tralia is only in its infancy. The Govern- PAPERS-tNDUSTRIAIL DEVELOP- inent, however, are wvise in providing for the MENT, ADVANCES. inspection of suich dangerous gear as scaf- folding, although the need for this may not in thle Mr. SPEAKER: It wvill be fresh have existed as m~uch !in days goue by as it minds of members that the Leader of the does now. ThEle Government haive been twitted the following Opposition last week moved by menmbers on this side for intr6dncing the motion:- Labour polic 'Y. This Bill wats introduced That all papers relating to the applica. through the advocacy of National Labour tions for Government assistance that were memib ers. ]last year thle Premier promised referred to or reported on by the Council to bring I down. It was prepared for intro- of Industrial Development, be laid onl the duction last year, as the Minister for Works Table of thle House. will admnit, but it w-as not brought down During the debate the Minister for Mines then.' Before Parliament assembled mnem- suggested that if the motion were carried it hers ,i-ere given an assurance that the Bill would he unwise to lay the whole of tile %,(ould be introduced this session. The morn- papers on the Table, but that hie would hare her for Sussex (Mr. Pickering) read a letter a precis maclb containing information as fromi a firm of architects, a paragraph of nearly as possible in complianxce with the which contained the following:- motion of the meniber for Boulder (Hion. P. Unless there is a world-wide need for Collier). I have that precis 1,ow, and it will suich a Bill, and I have heard] nothing of be left in the Speaker's roomn under nmy care. the kind, I see no necessity for its intro- It is marked ''Confidential only.'' Members duction here. ' can see it for themselves in my room at any This statement surprised me. This is thme time. It is for confidential perusal. only State on the mainland of Australia that has not passed a scaffolding Act. Mr. McCallum: There is not one in Vie- BILL.-ELECTRIC LIGHT AM)D POWER toria. AGREEMENT AMENDMENT (No. 2). Mr. DAVIES: The lion, member is misin- Introduced by the Minister for Mines and formed. New South Wales introduced the read a first time. Scaffolding Act in 1902, and it has been amended several times, notably !in 1908 and ,1912. South Australia introduced a Scaf- BTLL-F-INJARRA-DWARDA RAILWAY folding Inspection Act in 1907, and Queenst. EXTENSION ACT AMENDMENT. land an Inspection of Machinery and Scaf- Read a third time and transmitted to the folding Act tn 1908. This latter Act was repealed, and the Inspection of Scaffolding Council. Act brought down in 1915. New Zea- land introduced a Scaffolding Act in 1908, BILL-NSPECTYON OF SCAFFOLDING. since when certain amendments have beern amade to it. Victoria wsas the last State, with Second Reading. the exception of Western Australia, to intro- duce a Scaffolding Act, this haviug beeni Debate resumed from the 30th August. b1roughit down last year. It did not com~e Mr. DAVIES (Guildford) [4.401: I wel- into operation until March of this year. comie the introduction of this Bill. A ina- Western Australia, therefore, is only follow. sure similar to this 'vas prepared in 1913, iag in the footsteps of the other States. I bot was ,,ot introduced. The main opposi- admit this is merely a machinery measure, tion to the Bill from members on this side of and we must deal with it in Comamittee. Not- the House appears to comae front the fact Withstanding file Opposition that has cotte that there luav ' been 110 serious accidents in from members on this side, particularly those the building, trade. This is a foolish nrgn* who leave spoken from thme cross-bencies, 1. tre'at to 1130. hope they will see their way to accord this Mr. A. Thomson: Another objection to it meaesure their full support. The member for wvas that it meant the establishment of an. Sussex wras misinformed as to there being no other Government department. agitation for the Bill. Mr. DAVIES: I remember the day when Mr. Pickering: We have only your assur- thse quarries and clay holes in this State ance that there is an agitation for it.