Thursday, 24 July 1919
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Fylde Water Board Bill,
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what fees are levied by foreign Governments on British commercial travellers and agents in their respective countries; and what fees are levied...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a Minister has been appointed to the Czecho-Slovak Republic?
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether political representatives have been appointed to South Russia, Sofia, and Vienna?
Lieut.-Colonel AUBREY HERBERT: 4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the massacres in Smyrna and Aid in by Greek troops have been on a great scale; whether British interests...
5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that Polish forces have crossed the demarcation line between Poland and Lithuania laid down by the Inter-Allied Commission;...
7. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the immense importance to the future welfare of the world at large of the maintenance of the closest possible...
8. asked the Under secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state what was the total number of natives killed and wounded during the recent disturbances in Egypt?
13. asked the Pensions Minister whether he has now inquired into the case of Private Harold Leonard Dawson, No. 566487, late Royal Engineers, 18, Birmingham Road, Oldbury, who was stated to have...
15. asked the Pensions Minister whether officers who, as the result of their war service, require to wear artificial appliances are required to bear the cost of repair and renewal of these...
98. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that W. H. Reece, late No. 29840, South Wales Borderers, is in receipt of parish relief owing to the fact that his disablement...
17. asked the Attorney-General for Ireland how many persons have been imprisoned in Ireland for attending concerts and dances during the last six months?
18. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if the Irish resident magistrates, whose pay and allowances have not been increased for very many years, have been promised a permanent increase of pay...
21. asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Government have any information is to Lord alleged supplies of weapons of war in the hands of private persons or...
23. asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a body of soldiers and police arrived in a motor lorry in the early morning of 18th July at Foynes, and...
56. asked the Prime Minister whether, in pursuance of the declaration contained in his letter of 25th February, 1918, to the Chairman of the Irish Convention that the only hope of agreement lies...
26. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state what kind of assistance was rendered to the police by W. F. Watson whose appeal against his conviction was dismissed...
28. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Advisory Committee presided over by Mr. Justice Younger act upon any general rules or principles in granting exemption from...
29. asked the Secretary of Stale for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the promise given in the House of Commons on 12th July, 1918, by the then Home Secretary, Sir...
Mr. J. JONES: 30. asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the advisability of the pay and conditions of ser vice in the criminal lunatic asylums being assimilated to those prevailing in...
Lieut.-Commander KEN WORTHY: 31. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware of the discontent among the inhabitants of Gibraltar; whether he is aware that this is...
32. asked whether the Governor of St. Helena has been on leave for two years, the Colonial surgeon for three years, and the inspector of schools for nearly three years; and how long this state of...
34. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the standard cloth requisition by the Government for discharged soldiers' suits from the Co-operative Wholesale Society will be replaced and,...
35. asked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been called to the dissatisfaction caused throughout rural Hampshire by the new railway services, and especially in the Me on...
Sir J. D. REES: 38. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that the Glasgow and South-Western Railway make a freight charge of 13s. 4d. per ton on potatoes between the Isle of...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the present shortage of railway wagons, he will consider the advisability of setting up a committee or commission to inquire into the...
37. asked whether under any circumstances licences will be granted to traders in the United Kingdom for the importation of artificial leather; and what is the reason why licences are not...
39. asked whether retailers of coal will be entitled to charge the 6s. per ton increased price from the 21st instant upon stocks accumulated in yards, premises, and railway sidings before that date?
(by Private Notice) May I ask the Prime Minister whether, in view of the grave unrest in the country, he will follow the action taken in the industrial crises during the War and call together the...
54. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the unrest amongst the miners and other sections of the community, he can state the policy of the Government in reference to the last Report of...
55. asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the compulsory taking over of certain works, as was found necessary to be done to increase munitions during the War. for the production of...
41. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that port warehouses in London and elsewhere are seriously congested; if he is aware that railway -warehouses in the West Riding of...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 13. asked the Minister of Health if he can state the average number of bricks laid by a bricklayer in this country prior to the War and at the present time in Great...
66. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Corporation of Worcester are engaged upon a town-planning scheme, and in order to facilitate preparation of the plan required for that...
68. asked the Minister of Health how many authorities, outside the three who were provided with moneys from the Loan Commissioners, have succeeded in securing loans to enable them to commence...
44. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that dental practitioners in the Isle of Man are on a register separate from that of Great Britain; whether he is aware that gentlemen whose...
45 and 46. asked the Prime Minister (1) what, if any, action has been taken to clear out of Government offices the officials of enemy origin who are not mentioned in the second schedule to the...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the pressing importance of passing the Aliens Restriction Bill through Parliament before the Adjournment, he will fix a day before the end of this...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government has decided to give notice to the German Government of its intention to put into force Article 296, Section III., of the Peace Treaty, which...
53. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the present old age pensions of 7s. 6d. is the equivalent in purchasing power of less than 3s. 7½d. before the War; that, in effect, the...
69. asked the- Postmaster-General whether he is aware of the long d slays at the Post Office Savings Bank Department in the issue of the bank books containing the war gratuities of demobilised...
70. asked the Postmaster-General whether the American Telephone and Telegraph Company have been granted landing rights on both sides of the Atlantic for the five Atlantic cables which they took...
59. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government have taken any action to find out from Allied Governments whether there is any further official information in regard to the conclusion of an...
60. asked the Prime Minister whether it is possible to issue an official statement dealing with the existing situation of Russia and quote the authorities on whose information such a statement is...
103. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Corporal D. Scard, No. 782384, 29th London Regiment, enlisted in June, 1915, and although eligible for demobilisation was...
57. asked the Prime Minister whether, upon the occasion of the Pageant on the Thames upon 4th August, he will move a suspension of the sitting of the House so that Members may have an opportunity...
58. asked the Prime Minister whether, as a practical way of celebrating the signing of Peace, His Majesty's Government will establish better means for finding work for discharged and partially...
63. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether the Commission to be set up in place of the Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) is to be set up at once or after legislation; and whether, in view of the...
64 asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has now seen the evidence that the war savings committee of the borough of Blandford was asked to pay for a tank to assist in the Victory Loan...
Sir J. D. REES: 65. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether information will be afforded to the House and to the public-regarding the amounts held in the different maturities of national...
67. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the advice given by Mr. H. R. Williams, the Poor Law inspector to the Pwllheli Board of Guardians, to secure the...
61. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that small shopkeepers and traders are having their shops sold over their heads without warning in all parts of the country and to an increasing...
75. asked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Admiralty have any knowledge of German gas masks that were captured on the "Emden"; if the date of their manufacture was marked on them; and,...
Sir F. HALL: 77. asked the Minister of Labour whether his Department have yet communicated with the National Union of Papermakers inquiring the grounds on which they declined to carry out the...
78. asked the Minister of Labour whether the men employed at collieries, other than miners, who have been prevented from following their employment through the miners' strike, are entitled to...
79. asked the Food Controller what quantity of dates the Ministry of Food imported from September, 1918, to date, arrived and to arrive; what have been the allowances made by the Government for...
82. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether the proposals made by the Dumfriesshire War Committee for the establishment of a small holdings scheme in the neighbour hood of Lochmaben and Hightae...
Lieut.-Colonel A. HERBERT: 87. asked the President of the Board of Education whether there are retired teachers who, after serving thirty years' as certificated teachers, retired before this year...
Mr. J. JONES: 88. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions the nature of the Committee which considered the future of the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey; whether...
The Committee was originally appointed in February, 1919, "To consider the possible uses to which His Majesty's factory, Gretna, could be put, "and consisted of the following members: Sir Edward...
89. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether the attention of the Board has been drawn to the action of the owner of the Tabley Estate, Cheshire, in demanding the...
90. asked the Secretary of State for War whether permission is to be granted for wives of officers serving in the Rhine Army to join their husbands; and, if so, when this permission may be expected?
102. asked the Secretary of State for War if, in view. of the fact that many men have served in Egypt continuously without leave, a condition which has caused discontent, he will take steps to...
91. asked the Secretary of State for War whether the War Office is occupying a building and site, exceeding an acre in extent, in St. Giles-in-the-Fields, in the centre of London, for the storage...
Mr. WATER SON: 92. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Private John Jolley, No. 17014, 9th Lancers, A Squadron, British Expe- ditionary Force, Cologne, Germany, is only...
97. asked the Secretary of State for War whether Corporal Ban-key, No. 284457, Army Service Corps (Mechanical Transport), Grove Park, London, has been sent home from Salonika unfit after two and...
Captain COOTE: 95. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that discharged men employed as civilian labour by the officer commanding Royal Engineers at Harwich were locked out on...
101. asked the Secretary of State for War whether our Staff in France knew of the gas attack at Ypres a month before it took place and wired to England for gas-masks; and, if so, what was the...
104. asked the Secretary of State for War if there is any provision in the shape of a medal for old soldiers who re-enlisted in the late War but were denied the privilege of serving abroad on the...
106. asked the Secretary of State for India whether, on a date early in June of this year, some troops arrived at Lucknow at 11 a.m. on a day when the thermometer registered 115 degrees in the...
Second Report brought up, and read; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 145.]
Major MALONB reported from the Committee on Group C of Private Bills; That, for the convenience of parties, the Committee had adjourned till Tuesday next, at Eleven of the clock.
Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders Bill,
That they have agreed to,—
Read the first time; to be read a second time.
Lords Amendment to be considered tomorrow, and to be printed. [Bill 149.]
Order for Address [17th February] relative thereto, and discharged.
WEST INDIAN COUKT OF APPEAL BILL,—" to provide for the establishment of a Court of Appeal for certain of His Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies," presented by Lieutenant-Colonel AMERY;...
May I ask the right hon. Gentleman what is the business for next week?
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a, Supplementary sum, not exceeding £60,000,000, be granted to His Majesty, on Account, for defraying the Charges for Navy Services, which will come...
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn."— [Colonel Sanders.]
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