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Orders of the Day — Government of Ireland.: Vote of Censure Proposed. (20 Oct 1920)

Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy: ...are progressively used by a large section of the population. A gentleman who is now in the gallery, an Irish Unionist landowner, assures me that, if his cattle are driven, or if anyone attempts to squat on his land, his redress lies in the Arbitration Court, and that the judgments of the Arbitration Court are fair and are respected. May I give the House one case where two men had a dispute...

Civil Services and Revenue Departments Supplementary Estimate, 1921–22.: Middle Eastern Services. ( 9 Mar 1922)

Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: ...useful work. We want that gendermerie, and we say that it could become equivalent to the North West Mounted Police. That is the force you want to have. You do not want a number of British regiments squatting down in Jerusalem or Jaffa, but an efficient gendarmerie under European officers doing the ordinary police work, a North West Mounted Police. If there is to be a British Army remaining...

Civil Services Supplementary Estimate, 1922–23.: Post Office (Pneumatic Tubes Acquisition) Bill. (22 May 1922)

...has used it as a conduit for electric cables. It is hardly a pneumatic tube now, and could hardly he used as the original company proposed. We were a little apprehensive, notwithstanding our squatting rights—I believe we have been in possession of the derelict portion for 20 years—that we might be called upon to make good some of the damage done, although we committed that damage by...

Orders of the Day — Importation of Animals Bill.: Schedule. (12 Dec 1922)

Mr George Lambert: ...not a single agricultural representative. I very much regret that on another Commission there are to be three economists to inquire into agricultural subjects, and you will have these three people squatting on a manure heap cogitating as to how agriculture is to be made profitable. I know that we have to accept this Measure which has been read a Second time by an overwhelming majority....

Orders of the Day — Co-Partnership Bill. ( 3 Apr 1925)

Mr Shapurji Saklatvala: ...jute industry in Bengal shall have the identical conditions given to him as the Scottish worker in Scotland. Then the owners and controllers of capital will not run away from their own country and squat in other peoples' land. I would go further, and I would insist upon carrying out in practice what is piously put forward in the first sentence of this Bill, that there should be no...

Orders of the Day — Palestine and East Africa Loans [Guarantee]. ( 1 Dec 1926)

Mr Shapurji Saklatvala: ...went with capital. I am as much a friend of the Jewish race as of the Arabs or of my own people, but it is exactly my great objection that our Jewish capitalist friends are not to be encouraged in squatting there and appropriating the land, which should remain in the possession of the Arabs. Much was said about Haifa, that Haifa as a harbour is certainly the best place because it is most...

Amendment as to Relief from Income: Scaristaveg Farm (Prosecutions). (11 Apr 1927)

Mr Thomas Johnston: ...the Board of Agriculture informed the proprietors that they could not deal with them and could not take over the land for small holdings unless they first of all got rid of these raiders who were squatting.

Orders of the Day — King's Speech.: Debate on the Address. (12 Nov 1928)

Mr Ramsay Macdonald: ...he gave a wonderful story of Captain Mayne Reid and the prairie schooners; of the poor men who went away in cars and out on to the track and then came to a clearing in the middle of the country and squatted there, clearing a little bit, and later thriving. What nonsense! If he had used properly the opportunities that had been at his disposal, he would not have beers tolling us wild stories...

Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].: Clause 10. — (Rate of Speed.) ( 4 Jul 1930)

Mr Edwin Scrymgeour: ...way and playing havoc with them, straining their nerves beyond calculation—the time has come for the masses of the people to do as many of Gandhi's followers are doing in India, that is, to squat on the thoroughfares and hold up the traffic. [Laughter.] The matter is received with absolute levity. The answer to that levity was rightly given by the hon. Member for West Bermondsey. On a...

Oral Answers to Questions — India.: Salt Works, Dharasana (Raids). (23 Jul 1930)

...soon afterwards; the raiders were stopped by the police and sat down on the ground. They had to be forcibly moved back. Half-an-hour later a third attack developed, and the volunteers again squatted when held up by the police. By this time the mounted signallers were en route for Dungri, but they came up again, and at the sight of them the majority of the raiders got up and ran off, the...

Allotments (Unemployed Workers). (22 Sep 1931)

Mr James Ede: ...of Agriculture might consult him about what happened on St. George's Hill at Weybridge during the Puritan period. His hon. Friend's great hero, Oliver Cromwell, took steps to protect the people who squatted on the land when the landlords would not open the land to them. We are not encouraging people to squat; while the present system lasts we desire to see even the Ecclesiastical...

Orders of the Day — Supply.: Department of Health for Scotland. (22 Jun 1932)

Mr Archibald Skelton: ...him with regard to certain events that have been taking place in Hamilton. It has been found necessary to close a building—with a view to demolishing it—in which a certain number of people had "squatted." A difficulty has arisen as to how the various families affected are to be accommodated. Some have found accommodation for themselves. At present a certain number are accommodated in...

Orders of the Day — Supply.: Forestry Commission. ( 3 Jul 1933)

Dr John Worthington: ...in a letter which I received from a Mr. Joe Harris, who is living in a place called Pokes Hill, which is a curious backwater such as one finds in the Forest of Dean. Years ago certain poor people squatted there and the access to the land is so bad that in the winter the people have to crawl on their hands and knees to get to their homes. Mr. Harris writes to me to say that many large holes...

Newfoundland [Money]. ( 7 Dec 1933)

Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery: ..., prisoners, and others brought back and dumped on to an empty country. Moreover, they were people who had no real agricultural tradition. There was no effective agricultural life, beyond mere squatting, in the Transvaal. Lord Milner had to face, first, the task of feeding those people, rationing them for a year or two, educating their children, and then creating from the very foundations...

Orders of the Day — Newfoundland Bill: Clause 1. — (Power to issue Letters Patent providing for the administration of Newfoundland, and provision as to revocation and amendment thereof.) (14 Dec 1933)

Sir Stafford Cripps: ...scheme launched against the opposition of the reactionaries. However, unfortunately, he has failed in that gallant fight. Now we find that the broker's men are put in, and they are presumably to squat there until the debt is paid according to the ordinary capitalist system. That is the provision, that until Newfoundland can pay the bondholders and the banks and others this commission is to...

Orders of the Day — Palestine Loan [Guarantee]. (11 May 1934)

Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: ...to-day is the enormous price of land and the difficulty of buying land. Every sort of obstruction has been put in the way. All land is subject to any claims by anyone who may say that he has squatted at any previous time. The mortgage banks are finding it extremely difficult to lend any money on the security of land because the title of that land has been made completely insecure by the...

Orders of the Day — Supply.: Ministry of Health. ( 3 Jul 1934)

Sir Francis Fremantle: ...than our own. I am not so sure that it has anything to do with the question of gymnastic exercises so much as with the abandonment in many civilised countries, including our own, of the natural squatting position. We have forgotten how to squat. We do not learn as children how to squat. In Oriental countries and in other countries where more natural habits prevail, squatting is practised...

Orders of the Day — Government of India Bill.: Clause 12. — (Special responsibilities of Governor-General.) ( 5 Mar 1935)

Mr Henry Croft: ...sell to willing buyers, such as occurred under the boycott. On the occasion of the famous boycott we found, although it is hard to believe it, that a picket—a single individual—was allowed to squat down outside each shop where British textiles were sold, and no effort whatever was made to prevent that disgraceful interference with the liberties of the subject. May we be assured that...

Civil Estimates, 1935.: LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL [MONEY] BILL (By Order). ( 3 Jun 1935)

Mr John Wilmot: ...is a very beautiful structure. It combines in a peculiarly appropriate way architectural features which bring it into harmony with the noble proportions of Somerset House on one side and the new squat modern square architecture which is on the other side of the bridge. The keynote of the design is simplicity. By adopting the same device as Rennie, the twin arch, an impression of lightness...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland.: Housing, Hamilton. (25 Jun 1935)

Mr Duncan Graham: 12. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of prosecutions for squatting that have been dealt with at the sheriff court in Hamilton during the past 12 months, with the sentences imposed?


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