Monday, 20 June 1927
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he has received a report of the conference on the opium-growing Indian States for the Government of India, held at Simla on 28th May; and...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he will give information as to the precise nature of the criminal proceedings which have been instituted following the inquiry by the...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India propose to introduce legislation on the lines of the Truck Acts in this country?
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that manual workers in India are compelled, in many cases, to wait as much as six weeks for the payment of wages due to them;...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India when the right hon. V. S. Srinvasa Sastri will take up his duties in South Africa as agent for India in that country; whether Mr. Tyson, the chief...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the result of his inquiry concerning the incident at Diburgarh, when a man named Rasih Nandi was sentenced by the first-class magistrate to receive...
7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any appeal has been received by the Government of India from workers in Madras who are members of the tribes known as Erukulas in Telugu...
11. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India to what extent, expressed in sterling at the current rate of exchange, has the Government of India deflated the Indian currency from 1st April to...
12. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Report of the Textile Tariff Board will be placed before the Indian Legislative Assembly and their decision taken before the...
13. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what action has been taken on the Report of the Deck Passengers' Committee; and whether he is aware that the Report has been before the Government...
8. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that in 1922 the Government of Bombay prepared a draft Bill in connection with the settlement of industrial disputes, to which...
Mr. ROY WILSON: 16. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will arrange for a current copy of the Standing Rules and Orders of all Colonial Legislatures to be placed in the...
18. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to the statement made by King Feisal, at the opening ceremony of the Alwand Refinery on 3rd May, that there...
17. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he has any statement to make with regard to the position of affairs on the north-east frontier of Iraq; and whether any military operations...
19. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the recent reports of large German immigration into Tanganyika, it is possible further to encourage and assist British...
20. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what the relationship will be between the new Colonial Research Committee and the recently created Civil Research Committee?
21. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the Governor of Nyasaland, in a speech in November, 1926, stated that the rapid extension of tobacco growing by the...
22. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how much is being spent by the Empire Marketing Board by various means, and especially poster newspaper advertisements, to encourage the habit of...
28. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he is aware that pig-iron is at present being sold and delivered at steel works in Lanarkshire and Glasgow district...
51. asked the President of the Board of Trade what is the present situation in the shipbuilding trade; whether during the past six months there have been any shipbuilding or ship repair orders...
52. asked the President of the Board of Trade what have been the exports during the past six months of British motor cars and parts of motor cars to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South...
53. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give the figures for the import and export, of offals from the United Kingdom from 1st January to 1st June, 1927; and whether the...
26. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether all assisted migrants have been carried on British-owned vessels?
30. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is prepared to consider making it a condition of any new lease to the Royal Zoological Society that they shall open their grounds for the benefit...
Captain CROOKSHANK: 31. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the interest that is being taken by the agricultural community in possible schemes for the extension to...
32. asked the Minister of Agriculture what was the aggregate rent received from Crown land in Regent Street during the year 1926 under the new leases granted since the scheme of reconstruction...
34. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, what arrangements have been made for the unveiling of the paintings in St....
35. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is in a position to make a statement with regard to the settlement arrived at between Great Britain and Egypt with reference to the...
36. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Chinese are complaining that girls of 15 years of age are being introduced into maisons tolerées for the...
37. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a request has now been received from the Foreign Minister of the Nanking Government that British military aircraft shall henceforth...
38. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is intended to inform Parliament of the substance of the conversations at Geneva of members of the Council of the League of Nations...
39. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether General Sir Jocelyn Percy holds any official mission in Albania?
40. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty why the diagrams prepared by the Harper Committee have not been reproduced with Cmd. 2870, Record of the Battle of Jutland; and whether they will be made...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to lay papers before Parliament relating to the conversations and arrangements made with Italy early in the year 1919 for the occupation of the...
49. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the nonpayment of principal due on loans incurred by the West Ham Poor Law Union; that under the provisions of the Act, 22 and 23 Victoria,...
54. asked the Secretary for Mines what was the selling price of coal imported into France before the, embargo was imposed; and what was the cost of the coal at the pit-head?
56. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether any information was made public about the return of Lieutenants Carr and Gillman, of the Royal Air Force, to London after their flight of 3,425...
Captain GROOKSHANK: 57. asked the President of the Board of Education whether any steps are taken to give instruction to school children regarding the undesirability of leaving litter, such as...
58. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is prepared to introduce legislation to provide that public parks and squares which have sufficient area for playing fields...
59. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that there are over 8,000 taximeter cabs in the London streets, and that a crawling taximeter cab holds up the traffic more than does a...
63. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has received the resolution passed by the Association of Municipal Corporations on the 18th May last, stating that it viewed with alarm the...
60. asked the Home Secretary the names of the county boroughs that have issued local orders under the Wild Birds Protection Acts, 1880 to 1908, extending the close time after the 1st August, and...
Dr. VERNON DAVIES: 61. asked the Home Secretary if he proposes to give effect to the unanimous recommendation of the Medical Research Council contained in Cmd. 2880 that Section 3 (5) of the Dogs...
62. asked the Home Secretary why, in view of the need for economy, he refuses to sanction the appointment of voluntary probation officers?
64. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what will be the additional cost to the Treasury if the Government policy of preference for British, Home, and Empire over foreign goods were...
65. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that a guarantee under the Trade Facilities Act has been given to a company known as Fuel Utilisation, Limited, which...
43. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he can state the number of ex-service men in West Ham who are suffering from tuberculosis, and the number of such eases in receipt of treatment allowances?
46. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government have reached a decision with regard to the proposed abolition of the Department of Overseas Trade?
47. asked the Minister of Health whether the patients at the smallpox hospital at Dartford and at the smallpox hospital at Yeading were vaccinated on reaching the hospital or at any time after...
50. asked the Minister of Health whether it is the intention of the Government to renew the Rent Restrictions Act?
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has received a protest from the fruit merchants of Hull protesting against his action in prohibiting the import of French cherries after the 24th...
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee D (added in respect of the Audit (Local Authorities) Bill):...
[13TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
It shall not be lawful for any society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts, 1893 to 1913, or for any public utility company to make it a condition of employment or...
I beg to move to leave out the Clause. This Clause, as it emerged from the Committee stage, is double the length it was when we first saw it; it is twice as long and about three times as bad as...
Resolution reported. That, for the purpose of any Act of the present Session to make provision for the better drainage of the area drained by the River Ouse and its tributaries and for purposes...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Commander Eyres Monsell.]
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