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Hansard
- Start of Business
- PAPERS
- QUESTION
- QUESTION
- PUBLIC SERVICE INCREMENTS
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NAVIGATION BILL
- PEARCE, George
- ST LEDGER, Anthony
- CHAIRMAN, The
- PEARCE, George
- LYNCH, Patrick
- NEEDHAM, Edward
- PEARCE, George
- GUTHRIE, Robert
- RUSSELL, Edward
- ST LEDGER, Anthony
- NEEDHAM, Edward
- LONG, James
- RAE, Arthur
- STEWART, James
- LYNCH, Patrick
- WALKER, James
- RAE, Arthur
- GUTHRIE, Robert
- STEWART, James
- WALKER, James
- PEARCE, George
- LYNCH, Patrick
- Division
- Division
- PEARCE, George
- PEARCE, George
- PEARCE, George
- PEARCE, George
- PEARCE, George
- PEARCE, George
- PEARCE, George
- PEARCE, George
- PEARCE, George
- PEARCE, George
- CHATAWAY, Thomas
- PEARCE, George
- MILLEN, Edward
- PEARCE, George
- MILLEN, Edward
- CHAIRMAN, The
- PEARCE, George
- ST LEDGER, Anthony
- QUESTION
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Thursday, 21 November 1912
Senator LYNCH (Western Australia)
- - I am sorry that I cannot accept the amendment of my amendment submitted by Senator Walker.
Senator Lt Colonel Sir Albert Gould
- I thought the honorable senator had agreed to do so.
Senator LYNCH
- I cannot do so as I now understand the honorable senator's proposal. Under Senator Walker's amendment, a library might be established on board a ship, and access given to it to passengers and seamen on different conditions which might impose a disability upon seamen. I do not desire that. An essential condition of my proposal is that precisely the same conditions should apply to seamen as to passengers in obtaining books from a ship's library. The Minister of Defence, apparently, regards the possibility of a departure from that principle as something in favour of Senator Walker's amendment, but that is not the view which I hold. A further objection I have to Senator Walker's amendment is that it would exempt all steamers carrying a crew of nineteen persons, or under that number, and so would differentiate unfairly in our maritime craft. A steamer of fair size might have a crew of only fifteen or eighteen persons, and I do not see why they should be denied this privilege. I see no reason for departing from my original amendment, which, if agreed to, would open ships' libraries to seamen on the same terms . and conditions as to passengers.
