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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

No. 5 .

JOURNALS OF THE SENATE.-

WEDNESDAY, 8th MARCH, 1950.

1. Meetin g of Se n a t e.—The Senate met at three p.m., pursuant to adjournment.—The President (Senator the Honorable Gordon Brown) took the Chair.

2. PRAYERS.

3. Que stio n s .—Questions on notice were answered.

4. P a p er s.—The following Papers were presented, pursuant to Statute— Australian Broadcasting Act—Seventeenth Annual Report and Balance-sheet of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, for year 1948-49. Commonwealth Public Service Act—Appointments—Department—

Defence—D. A. Heap, P. Middleton, J. A. Scott. Labour and National Service—Μ. T. Shaw. Supply and Development—M. G. Allen, A. J: Barlow, D. F. Dyson, R. P. Loh. Defence Act—Royal Military College—Report for 1948. Defence Act and Naval Defence Act—Regulations—Statutory Rules 1950, No. 7. Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act—National Security (Industrial Property) Regulations—

Orders—Inventions and designs (28). Lands Acquisition Act—Land acquired for Defence purposes—Middle Swan, Western Australia. Norfolk Island Act— 0 rd i n ances— 1949—

No. 3—Brands and Marks. No. 4—Pasturage and Enclosure. Regulations—1949— -

No. 2 (Brands and Marks Ordinance). No. 3 (Pasturage and Enclosure Ordinance). Services Trust Funds Act—Services Canteens Trust Fund—Report for year 1948-49.

Wool Use Promotion Act—Regulations—Statutory Rules 1950, No. 6.

5. P r e sid en t : Temporary R e l ie f from Ch a ir.—The Minister for Trade and Customs (Senator O’Sullivan) moved, bv leave—That, during the unavoidable absence of the Deputy-President, the President lie authorized to call upon any one of the Temporary Chairmen of Committees to relieve him temporarily in the Chair, without any formal communication to the Senate. •Question—put and passed.

6. Governor -Ge n e r a l ’s Opening Spee ch —Addrkss-in-Re p l y .—Order of the Day read for the adjourned debate on the motion (by Senator MeCallum). viz.— -That the following Address-in-Reply be agreed to :— To His Excellency Ike Governor-General.

May it please Y o ur E x c elle n c y—

We, the Senate of the Commonwealth of Australia in Parliament assembled, desire, to express our loyalty to our Most Gracious Sovereign, and to thank Your Excellency for the: Speech which you have been pleased to address to Parliament·.

Debate resumed. Ordered—That the debate be adjourned till the next day of sitting, and that Senator Clothier have leave to continue his speech on the resumption of the debate.

7. Ad jo u r n m en t .—The Senate adjourned at. eighteen minutes past, eleven p.m. till to-morrow at three p.m.

8. Atte n d a n c e .—Present, all the Members except Senators Hammford, Lamp, McKenna, Maher, Simmonds, Tangney and Wood.

JOHN EDWARDS, Clerk of the Semite.

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