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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

No. 44.

JOURNALS OF THE SENATE.

WEDNESDAY, 18th OCTOBER, 1950.

1. Meeting of Senate.—The Senate met at three p.m., pursuant to adjournment.—The President (Senator the Honorable Gordon Brown) took the Chair.

2. PRAYERS.

3. Questions.—Questions on notice were answered.

4. P apers.—The following Papers were presented, pursuant to Statute— Commonwealth Grants Commission Act—Commonwealth Grants Commission—Seventeenth Report (1950). Commonwealth Public Service Act—Appointments—Department—

Defence—M. G. Maroney. National Development—R. D. Pratten. Customs Act and Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act—Regulations—Statutory Rules 1950, No. 61. .

Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act—Regulations—Statutory Rules 1950, No. 58. Navigation Act—Regulations—Statutory Rules 1950, No. 60. '

Superannuation Act—Regulations—Statutory Rules 1950, No. 59.

5. P ostponement.—Ordered—That Order of the Day No. 1, General Business, be postponed until after the consideration of Order of the Day No. 1, Government Business.

6. Communist P arty Dissolution Bill 1950 [No. 2],—Order of the Day read for the adjourned debate on the Question—That the Bill be now read a second time. Debate resumed.

' And it being 11 p.m . — ■

7. Adjournment.—The President, under Sessional Order, put the Question—That the Senate do now adjourn. Question—resolved in the affirmative. The Senate adjourned at eleven p.m. till to-morrow at eleven a.m.

8. Attendance.—Present, all the Members except Senators MoLeay, Maher, O’Byrne, Tangney (on leave) and Tate.

JOHN EDWARDS, Clerk of the Senate.

By Authority: L. F. J ohnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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