Debate on The Weights and Measures (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1974 · col. 15919

The Speaker: The question before the House is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. I call the Minister.

Manfred Brenn (Minister of Finance): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill raises what it says it raises and spends it where the schedule says. I have the figures and will lay them on the table. The Bill amends The Weights and Measures (Amendment) Act, which the House will remember passing, and amends it in one particular only. I move.

Kerstin Hallin (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. I should like the Minister to say what the yield will be, and I should like it in marka and not in percentages. My constituents in The Sudmark wrote to me about the Bill, all 9 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I shall vote against the Bill. [Interruption.]

Markus Brenn (The Osmoor; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The people of The Osmoor will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. There is not a word in the Bill about wages. There never is. I put the word in now, so that it is in the record. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. I should like the Minister to say what the yield will be, and I should like it in marka and not in percentages. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Felix Neiner (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? The material provision is this: Sets the duty at 8 pfen in the marka. I ask the House to note it. I should like the Minister to say what the yield will be, and I should like it in marka and not in percentages. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [The Line!]

Gregor Barmann (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Speaker, The Bill is in order. The Clerk has entered it. The Ministry of Chronology has seen it. I do not see what more the House requires. The people of Westgau will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. I should like the Minister to say what the yield will be, and I should like it in marka and not in percentages. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. We shall divide the House. [Shame.]

Klara Kessler (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Speaker, The Union has no quarrel with the purpose of the Bill; its quarrel is with the fee, and with the officer who will collect it. The Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. My constituents in Norrfeld wrote to me about the Bill, all 5 of them, and they were against it until they read it. We shall divide the House. [Shame.]

Gisela Krermann (Kesselhöh; The Reed Party): Speaker, In Kesselhöh, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. The Bill says so in terms: Sets the duty at 8 pfen in the marka. The Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Shame.]

The Minister thanked the House for a short debate and asked for a short division.

The question being put, a division was called for, and the members went to the lobbies.

The Speaker declared the Ayes to have it and the Bill was passed.

The House then proceeded to the next Order of the Day.