We are always interested to know what our politicians do for a living, and, with th ly growth of the Labour Pai is interesting te see if occupations are representa! in the House of Commons which have not been there before. In this new Parliament, however, practical ly every occupation seems to be represented. Thus,' we have bar-isters heading the list with 69, and, we would rather expect with a Labour Government, trade unin Jand party officials come next with 52, The Army is always well represented in any Parliament, and it has 40 representatives this. There are also 40 miners.
Other occupations represented 1 more than one member:—Advocates 3, medical 13, Navy 6, bankers 5, engineers 17, ministers of religion 6, journalists 23, company directors 15, teachers 15, authors 10, railwaymen 13, diplomatists 5, newspaper: Proprietors or directors 5, builders 5, propagandists and organisers 3, shipping 6, theatrical 5, farmers 6, manufacturers 12, merchants 4, stockbrokers 3, brokers (various) 4, members of Lloyds 3, composites 4, distillers and "brewers auctioneers, land and estate agents 4, textile workers 5. Professors, cat-workers, accountrs, fronmoulders, painters, bookbinders, and drapers are represented by two each, while there is one each of clemists, carpenters and joiners, woodworters, shop assistants, architectural sculptors, commercial travellers, commercial clerks, smallholders, Conservative agents, builders, architects, school managers, water. men and' lighterman, scientific in strument makers, manager tobacco works, joiners, barters, modellers and designers, hosiery workers, steelworkers, furnishing trades, estate managers, wholesale cloth: fers, boot operatives, tailors, ex-police officers, piano workers, coachbuilders, pattern makers" hair. dressers, preachers, printers, jute weavers.
Of course, there are Members of no specific occupations; persons cant. space so as to allow for a landing. It transpires that if the machine had fallen into the sea close by there was no hope whar~ soever oe airmen reaching land alive as the place is teeming with sharks. On the small space where they landed crocodiles have nasty habit of wandering about at night, while the mangrove scrub at the Back of the lighthouse teems with these monsters. As the lighthouse is not connected by wireless with Darwin and is only visited at infrequent intervals by vessels with provisions, the whereabouts of the airmen remained unknown until Captain Brain set out in search of them and after one hour's flying from Darwin found the missing men. The men had to be brought off by boat as their plane was a total wreck and Owen injured, b sides there was no room for Brain's plane to land, the broken machine occupying the "space. Captain Brain, who has received the thanks of the Commonwealth Government for his great work contributes much of his success to luck, That this is merely modesty upon his Part may be judged by the fact depot Victoria he has in the that since leaving the Point Cooke
service of Quantas covered 300,000 miles without mishap and his flying time with that service now '0- tals 4,000 hours. The speedy ro-cognition by the King of Captaia Brain's exploits is welcomed by alt and in the triumphal progress of Moir and Owen through" Sydney Brain received the unstinted ap. redation of the huge crowds assembled to welcome the airmen, Queensland's New Government must seem strange for the Party after fourteen years of op. position to again be seated in the ministerial benches. The shock whom it would be dificult to apply any descriptive term, although engaged in work of local admin: stration or recently occupying hie Government positions. It "would, therefore, appear that no one in the country "need worry" about the interests of his own employment! not being well looked after.
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