Former Conservative Peer (30 Nov 1989 – 9 Jan 2009)
Former MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme (24 Jul 1837 – 23 Jun 1841)
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Mr James Hogge: ...the officialdom which controls the Regulations. I will give one case only. In the retreat from Cambrai a major of a battery was riding in the dark at the head of his battery and was thrown from his horse which had shied at something that was passing. Before he could recover his feet the battery passed over his head and crushed him to death. The widow of the major under the Regulations of...
Lieutenant-Colonel HERBERT: 71. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government adhere to the undertaking given that no Army horses should be sold in the East?
Colonel M. J. WILSON: 82. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether, seeing that a number of horses and mules have been sold out of the Army, he will issue instructions by which a proportional amount of the hay and straw earmarked for purchase by the War Department will be released at the earliest possible opportunity?
Mr George Renwick: ...have heard from the Noble Lord the Member for Oxford University that he wants to see the Bills considered upstairs whilst this House is not sitting. That is, to my mind, putting the cart before the horse. We have heard the extraordinary admission that you cannot get Members to attend Standing Committees now. Then what is the good of having more of those Committees? Business men will not...
Oral Answers to Questions — Army Horses.
Horse Breeding.
Oral Answers to Questions — Army Horses (Surplus).
Average prices in pounds sterling, excluding animals sold to butcher, realised to date, namely, riders 63, light draught 69, heavy draught 96, pack horses 44, mules 52. Considered sufficient guarantee of good treatment by purchasers. Each animal sold with horse rug. Localauthorities only allow responsible persons to bid at sales. All animals sold are specially branded to enable British...
...animals sold in country not likely to exceed number of which country has been denuded. Thirdly, prices realised are very high, thus forming fair guarantee of goodtreatment. Fourthly, treatment of horses by Arabs is generally good.
Hon. Hugh O'Neill: ...Ireland; how many packs of hounds have ceased hunting as a result of such interference; and whether he is aware that in some cases firearms have been used with the result that at least one valuable horse has been destroyed?
Mr Winston Churchill: ...us on their account, and a sum of nearly £50,000,000 which I anticipate will be received from miscellaneous receipts, normal and abnormal, Dominion contributions, issues on repayment and sale of horses and the like. There are three financial points to note in regard to the Estimate. According to the "Economist" index number the present general level of prices is about 128 per cent. over...
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: ...from eighty to one hundred peasant insurrections took place in Russia against the Bolshevik authorities, the reason being that the peasants refused to be conscripted or to permit their grain, horses, and cattle to be confiscated. The different areas involved in these insurrections varied from a few villages to whole districts. They were specially numerous in the north, and in the Nikolski...
Mr Donald Maclean: ...policy is as futile as it is improper and disreputable. He goes on to say that the beans would be quite unsaleable at the price charged, especially as we are warned that they are not to be fed to horses by the Government themselves. The beans depreciate every week they are in stock, and the losses would have to be borne by a Department of the Ministry of Food. Is that or is it not true? If...
Army Horses.
Mr Edward Shortt: The number of mines employing pit ponies and the number of pit ponies employed are approximately 1,880 and 65,000. There are eight, not six, special inspectors of horses, and practically every mine employing ponies is visited by one of these inspectors at least once a year, some of them several times. The ordinary inspectors also constantly inspect horses and stables. The inspectors find,...
Mr Robert McLaren: ...number made by the inspectors in charge of the twelve districts; the total cost, including travelling and allowance expenses and clerical allowance; the number of inspectors of mines, quarries, and horses on the staff in 1914; the total underground inspections made; the number made separately by the six divisional inspectors and the chief inspector; and the total cost, including travelling...
..., and I could have wished that it could have been extended not merely to the men now serving, but to those who are eligible for service. I do not see why you should always work the willing horse. We have men serving now in France who have served for a considerable period during the War, and if the trouble broke out again they would be the first men sent to the scene of action, while many...
Mr William Lunn: ...would like to put in a plea for pit ponies and their treatment. I was quite astonished the other day to hear the right hon. Gentleman, in answer to a question, say that, although there were 65,000 horses and ponies in the mines of this country, and something like 1,800 mines, there were only eight inspectors, and he considered there were sufficient inspectors. I do not know to what extent...
Major-General John Seely: ...the same form, not 48 but 164 tons, you would require not 5 per cent. but 2½per cent, in order to give that the same speed—that is, by doubling the size of your vessel, you require only half the horse-power to do the same work. Sir Charles Parsons pointed out to me further that although this does not apply in the same degree to sea vessels, it is to a certain extent true with regard to...
Major-General John Seely: ...Secretary or the First Lord of the Admiralty constantly, without reason given, says, "This most excellent officer is not best suited to be," whatever it may be—second Sea Lord, or Master of the Horse—and he is sent back to his regiment. The State must have power to do that. If there is to be an inquiry as to whether Lord Weir was right in superseding this most admirable lady because he...