FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9189, 8 September 1906, Page 5

FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

THE HARVESTER DUTY DISCUSSION [PB»BS ABSOCIATIOK.I (Received September 7, 11.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, September 7. Six W. Lyne admitted that bis valuation of harvesters, might be a little too high, be. would not bring it back to £38, which, was too low. Mr Cook thanked the Minister, and said it- was an admission <th«t £65 was too high. After further discussion a fixed duty of £12 on each, machine -was agreed to, ana a consequential reduction from £8 to £6 made on strippers and parts of strippers, and harvesters were reduced to a ljsd per Ib. ANOTHER SCENE" IN THE HOUSE. MELBOURNE, September 7. - The- House eat all night and on till 4 in the afternoon dealing with the Harvester duty. , Mr Conroy, sitting behind Mr Watson, [ the Labor leader j shouted' something about a swindle worked' by a Minister of the Crown. Mr Watson heatedJy replied/ Tne two men, facing- each other, across the back of the bench, shouted angrily in each r other's faces. The House was in up- ' roar, the Chairman's voice being oocasion- " ally heard above the din calling order. ! Mr Conroy eventually apologised for creating the disturbance. Dr Van Slyke, 'Specialist in the eye/ ear, nose and throat, will be in Hawera on . Friday ancT Sattaday, September W and 15, when he may be consulted at the Comf mercial Hotr-'. — Advt. Quarter of Century in Business. — In celebration 'of this- event, J. BRUNETTE, l} jeweller, Hawera, is making, a- reduction J of 20 to 25 per cent. on casli puxcKaee© during this ' month. — See Ad'vtr