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HVP No. 55
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1901.
THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
No. 55.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, 23RD AUGUST, 1901.
1. The House met pursuant to adjournment.-Mr. Speaker took the Chair, and read Prayers.
2. POST AND TELEGRAPH BILL.-The Order of the Day for the further consideration of this Bill in Committee of the whole House having been read-Mr. Speaker left the Chair, and the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole. Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; Mr. Piesse reported that the Committee had made progress in
the Bill, and that he was directed to ask, That the Committee may have leave tq sit again. Resolved-That the House will, on Wednesday next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 3. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.-Mr. Barton moved, by leave, That Mr. McCay be a Member of the Standing Orders Committee in place of Mr. W. H. Groom, deceased.
Question-put and resolved in the affirmative.
4. PAPER.-The following Paper was laid upon the Table by the Clerk:-Quantities of Imports of Maize, Hay, Potatoes, Sugar, and Timber.-Return to an Order of the House dated 7th June, 1901. Ordered to lie on the Table, and to be printed.
5. ADJOURNMENT.-Mr. Deakin moved, That the House do now adjourn. Question-put and resolved in the affirmative.
And then the House, at twenty-three minutes past four o'clock p.m., adjourned until Wednesday next, at two o'clock p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT.-All Members were present except-Messrs. Conroy, Ewing, Fisher, Glynn, Hughes,. Isaacs, Kennedy, Macdonald-Paterson, McCay, Sawers, Bruce Smith, Spence, Watkins, and Watson.
C. GAVAN DUFFY,
Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Printed and Published for the GOVERNMENT of the COMMONWEALTH of AUSTRALan by ROBT. S. BBRa, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
