Debate on The Telegraph (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1974 · col. 15935

The Speaker: The Order of the Day is the third reading of the Bill. The Minister has the floor.

Klara Kreist (Minister of the Interior): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill is a Bill about drains, roads and lamps, and I shall not dress it up. The towns need it. I read the material clause to the House. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 610 marka. I ask the House to pass it.

Lotte Hauk (The Osmoor; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Order and record. That is the whole of my party's programme and I do not apologise for its shortness. In The Osmoor, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. The Bill says so in terms: Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 610 marka. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

Klaus Brenn (Kesselhöh; The Assembly Union): 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 liberty of the subject is a large phrase for a small Bill, but I use it, because the Bill is small and the liberty is not. The Bill says so in terms: Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 610 marka. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Hear, hear.]

Roland Lelberg (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Speaker, I sit for Westgau. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I ask the House to consider the tradesman who will have to comply with this. He has not been consulted; he has been notified. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Hear, hear.]

Karl Haleil (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The Sudmark has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. I speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. The material provision is this: Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 610 marka. I ask the House to note it. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. I oppose the third reading.

Peter Brenn (The Osmoor; The Reed Party): Speaker, In The Osmoor, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. The clause is short and I shall not read it. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Shame.]

Pavel Totenn (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. I sit for Norrfeld. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

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

The Speaker put the question. The Ayes were challenged and the House divided.

The tellers reported the numbers to the Chair. The Speaker declared the Bill passed.

The House proceeded to other business.