AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 54, 18 October 1911, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

ANOTHER SUSPENSION. _ Sydney; October 17. In the Assemoly Ivir. Moxiiam got at cross purposes with tiio Speaker, who-ordered his removal. Mr. Moxham, on.leaving the House, voluntarily interjected that the Speaker was “blacker than be looked,” and was ordered to be brought back. He eventually, apologised. Mr. Levien , moved the second reading of the . Totalisator Bill. THE TOTALISATOR BILL. : (Received 18, 9.6 a.m.) Sydney, October 18. In the Assembly Mr. Levien moved the second reading of the Totalisator Bill. He referred to instances where horsos had been dead through the influence of the bookraaking clement. He had interviewed leading New Zealand sportsmen, and all favoured the totalisator. The Australian Jockey Club received £9IOO from Bookmakers. Altogether the public had to find two hundred odd thousand a year for the bookmakers. The Bill proposes that the Government receives 5 per cent, of the totalisator receipts. Mr. I Levien estimated ‘that one million would pass through the machine annually. Ho was prepared to accept an amendment. The women would not be allowed to bet. Thg Premier said tl;c Bill was.outside of party politics. Personally fie was opposed to it, because they had no right to throw temptation to gamble in the way of the people. ! Mr. Levien: Then shut the racecourses. Mr. McGowon said lie had been informed that New Zealand factories, where women and girls, wore employed, were regularly visited by agents of the tote. ;Mr. Levien: The person who furnished that report is a liar. The debate was adjourned ’ The Methodist Church Bill, rendered necessary by the separation of New Zealand from the Australian Conference, was read secondly, and < taken through Committee. A Select Committee was appointed to enquire into the cause of the cnor- j mous increase in house rents.