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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Oct 28, 1927
Page
4
In a lively account from the House of Commons, members recount practical jokes. A Scottish MP uses green visitor cards to misdirect officials, while others stage audacious gags, from book parcels unread to a dog rescue caper. Orange procession pranks also appear, ending with an extended speech by Sir Gerald Strickland.
In the House of Representatives the minister moved the second reading of the Electoral Bill from the Senate. A select committee, appointed after the last general election, reviewed postal and absentee rules and vote duplication safeguards. The bill includes extending powers, ease of voting for absent electors, and a six mile voting distance rule. The debate paused when Mr Theodore Dalley moved to suspend orders for a select committee to investigate the Savings Bank.
William McKenzie secretary of the West Australian Timber Workers Union was shot in the shoulder as he left his office. A bystander, Charles William Saunders, an English timber worker, allegedly shot himself after McKenzie fell. Saunders died at hospital. McKenzie is not seriously hurt.
A dynamite blast at Morown railway station near Perth wounded five Italians waiting in a shelter shed. Police suspect a deliberate murder attempt. The shelter and station building were wrecked and railway communications were cut. Names of injured include Bitall Gulacppi and Ciresano Guiseppi among others. The blast is blamed on a deliberate act targeting Southern Europeans.
Mr Bruce and Performing Rights Association reps in Melbourne yesterday discussed further phones of the wireless report. Mr Bruce will declare the Government's intentions next week in the House on Royal Commission recommendations.
In a heated scene, Mr. Jack Jones lifts a hat and places it where the orator would sit. The House freezes, then recovers, with laughter as Sir Gerald finally sits, and the war is saved.
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