Monday, 11 February 1929
The House met at a quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Great Western Railway (Air Transport) Bill (by Order),
"to restrict competition by omnibuses with tramway services of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the city of Salford; to confer upon them borrowing and other financial powers; and for other...
"to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to Middles- brough," presented by Mr. Chamberlain; read the First time; and to be referred to the Examiners of Petitions for...
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what recommendations, if any, have been made to the Government of India by the scholars responsible for the linguistic survey of India, or from any...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the value of locomotives, boilers, and component parts which the India Store Department have placed with Continental makers since 31st March, 1928,...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the views of the Government of India, which are to be taken into account by His Majesty's Government before any action is taken on the...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what are the circumstances in which the Government of India has nationalised the properties of the Burma Railway Company at the beginning of this...
8. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the number of persons, other than Indians, who have been deported from India during the last four years, and the reasons for such deportations?
9. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the approximate number of women electors to the central and each of the provincial legislatures in India, and the percentage these figures...
Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE: 10. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the chief commissioner of the North-West frontier province of India is responsible for the administration and...
11. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether consideration has been given to the memorial submitted to the Secretary of State from Mr C. N. B. Smart, a resident engineer in the...
14. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he is now in a position to state the intentions of the Government of India in regard to the men who are at present imprisoned or detained under...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he can give any information as to the riots in Bombay; and will an inquiry be held as to the responsibility of Pathans or Hindus for the deaths?
16. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can give information as to the riots in Colombo; and, particularly whether he proposes to take any disciplinary action in the matter?
19. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies by what authority Mr. Novomeysky carried out investigations on the Dead Sea in situ when the British group was repeatedly informed by His...
Mr. MALONE: 20. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any conversations are proceeding with the object of concluding a treaty with the Imam of the Yemen?
Mr. MALONE: 21. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether there has been any attempt made to renew conversations with King Ibn Saud since the breakdown of conversations at Jedda; what...
Mr. FOOT MITCHELL: 23. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs if he has received any requests from the milk producers and distributors for a continuance of the milk publicity campaign...
Mr. MITCHELL: 29. asked the Minister of Agriculture if the benefits of the Agricultural Credits Act are available to poultry farmers?
Mr. MITCHELL: 30. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has received any representations urging the desirability of prohibiting, under the Merchandise Marks Act, the exposure for sale of...
31. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has received a copy of a resolution passed by the East Riding County Council on Saturday, 2nd February, calling his attention again to the great...
54. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the amounts of Death Duties received by the Treasury from agricultural estates in 1926, 1927 and 1928, respectively?
24. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he has received any representations from the Government of the Irish Free State on the subject of their Report on the condition of...
25. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he can now give an estimate of the total cost likely to fall on the British Exchequer in connection with last year's special scheme...
26. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can give the latest official figures of persons liable for conscription who have enrolled in Kenya?
27. asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department what measures he has under consideration for stimulating British trade with the new China?
28. asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he has received any invitation to associate an official of his Department with the proposed delegation from British industry to...
32. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been drawn to the depression in prices for home-produced grain at inland mills by reason of the preference afforded to port millers...
35. asked the Minister of Health whether he has any information as to the average increase of new assessments of colliery undertakings under the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925; and whether the...
33. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the many complaints his Department has received regarding the quality of bread, which contains a large proportion of water content, he...
34. asked the Minister of Health how many of the 46,628 subsidy houses built by private enterprise during 1928 were built for letting purposes?
38. asked the Minister of Health whether it has now been decided to recognise North Middlesex Hospital as the centre available for radium treatment for Middlesex; and, in view of the large...
41. asked the Postmaster-General whether he has under consideration the question of adopting the 24-hour system of time indication in the postal services, in view of the advantages which it has...
43. asked the Minister of Labour whether, with reference to promotion to the grade of higher clerical officer in his Department, it is the policy of his Department to give preference for such...
45. asked the Prime Minister if he will cause the objections of the Committee of Imperial Defence to the construction of a Channel tunnel to be set forth in detail in a White Paper, for the...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that legislation is being undertaken in the case of 23 pictures specified in a schedule signed by Lord Iveagh, but not properly attested...
49. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether negotiations are taking place between the United States, Great Britain, and Iraq; and, if so, whether they are approaching a conclusion?
50. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the names of those States which have not ratified, or expressed their intention of ratifying, the Kellogg Pact?
51. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any official information to the effect that the Russian Government has sent an ultimatum to Habibullah Khan; and if he has any...
42. (for Mr. W. THORNE) asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that Mr. T. Rogers, 44, Chaucer Road, Forest Gate, E.7, was sent by the local Employment Exchange to work for Mr. C. Chave, 16,...
46. (for Mr. FENBY) asked the Prime Minister whether the Government have decided to postpone indefinitely the construction of the two cruisers which were to have been laid down in this year's...
Copy presented of Statement of the Sum required to be voted in order to make good an Excess on the Grant for Old Age Pensions for the year ended 31st March 1928 [by Command]; Referred to the...
Estimate presented of the further Amount which will be required during the year ending 31st March 1929, to meet Expenditure not provided for in the Army Estimates of the year [by Command];...
Estimates presented of Effective and Non-Effective Services of the Army for the financial year 1929 [by Command]; Referred to the Committee of Supply, and to be printed.
William Bennett, esquire, for Borough of Battersea (South Division).
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £366,000, he granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
Read a Second time, and committed to a Standing Committee.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Commander Eyres Monsell.]
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