Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Friday 10 July 1936, page 6


A.L.P. PARLEY Members from Each State BACK TO FOLD ADIELAIDE, Thursday. Strong delegations have been appointed to represent the various state A.L.P. branches at the federal triennial Labour conference in Adelaide on July 27. As the New South Wales State Labour party, formerly the Lang party, is now recognised as the official party in that state, it will be represented at the conference for the first time since 1931. The state delegations will be:Victoria.--Mr. Drakeford, M.H.R., the Federal Labour Secretary (Mr. McNamara, 5M.L.C.), the secretary of the A.C.T.U. (Mr. C. Crofts), and Messrs. P. J. Clarey, A. A. Calwell, and D. Cameron, New South Wales.-The State Labour president (DMr. P. J. Keller), the state secretary (Mr. J. J. Graves, M.L.C.), the organising secretary (Mr. J. B. Martin, M.L.C.), the state vicepresident (DMr. P. H. Gibson), and Messrs. A. J. Murphy and R. Johnston, members of the state executive. Western Australia. -The Federal Labour Leader (Mr. Curtin), Miss May Rolman, M.L.A., and Messrs. J. M. Fraser, P. J. Mooney, T. Lowrie, and J. H. Newman. Tasmania. - Tilhe Attorney-General (Mr. E. J. Ogilvie), the State Labour secretary (Mr. C. A. Lamp) and Mrs. Lamp, and 'Messrs. E. Brooker, M.I.A., and A. J. White. South Australia.-The State Labour president (Mr. Richards, M.P.), Mr. Mtakin, M.H.R., and the secretary of the State Parliamentary Labour party (Mr. Thompson, M.P.), the senior vicepresident of the state branch (DMr. E. i. D)awes), the past president (Mr. P. Walsh), and Mr. G. E. Yates. Queensland.-The Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. M. P. Hynes), and Messrs. C. G. Fallen, J. C. Lamont, S. J. Bryan, R. J. Carroll, and Lewis McDonald. Among the most important questions to be dealt with will be the proposed changes in Labour's platform and tlhe sociallsation objective, taxation, banking and monetary reform, unemployment and housing. It is almost certain that the split in New South Wales between the State Labour party and the industrial movement, following the expulsion of Mr. Garden, M.H.R., from the party, will be raised at the conference. It is considered possible also that Mr. Blackburn, M.H.R., will appeal to the conference against his expulsion by the Victorian branch over the anti-war movement issue. MONETARY REFORM HOBART, Thursday. The monetary reform committee set upl by the Federal Parliamentary Labour Party for the purpose of considering the financial proposals to be placed before the Australian Labour Party conference at Adelaide on July 27, will meet at Melbourne on July 2t and 22. There will be a meeting of the federal executive of the A.L.P. at Adelaide on Monday morning, July 27, at which the Treasurer (Mr. E. Dwyer Gray) and the Attorney-General (Mr. E. J. Ogilvie) will represent Tasmnia. The Tasmanian delegates at the conference to follow will be Messrs. E. J. Ogilvie. E. Dwyer Gray. E. Brooker, A. H. White, and Mr. and Mrs. C. Lamp. One of the subjects for discussion in which the Tasmanian delegates will be most interested is the proposal dealing with" monetary reform, In connection with which it is anticipated that a -strong stand will bo taken in favour of the state policy of community control of credit In the interests of the community. The proposed reorganisation of the Australian Labour movement along the lines of unification instead of the present federation system also will be an important subject dealt with. Under the new proposal Tasmania would have smaller representation than other states, and the move will be strongly opposed. The magnetism of the earth has little or no effect on the vital processes of beings living on the earth. ExperIments to determine the effect of powerful magnetic fle' s on living cells have been made by Drs. Ruby PayneScott and William H. Love, in tile Cancer -Research Laboratory at S:"dney University. They cultivated in test tubes the living cells from chick embryos. Some of these they grew in a magnetic field 5000 times as powerfill as that of the earth, and others they grew under normal conditions, but without any observable differences. Some decades ago it was a widely held belief that the earth's magnetic field produced extensive effects on human beings, and many neople would sleen only with the head to tI north and the body parallel to the magnetic merlaidan.