Tuesday, 19 March 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
London County Council (Money) Bill (Standing Orders applicable thereto complied with).
"to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Leyton, Morley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Tintwistle," presented by Mr. Chamberlain; read the First time; and to be...
2. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has now received the Report of the Food Council upon milk prices; and when it will be published?
3. asked the President of the Board of Trade how many ex-service temporary civil servants employed in the clearing office, enemy debts branch, have received notice of discharge; and whether any...
Mr. BECKETT: 4. asked the President of the Board of Trade how many films have been produced in this country to meet the quota requirements; and how many of these were financed by foreign capital...
5. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can say whether any and, if so, what changes have taken place this year in the shipping freights between Australia and this country; and whether...
1. asked the President of the Board of Trade what was the production of gas mantles in this country in 1925 and 1928, respectively, and what proportion of home consumption was met by the British...
6. asked the President of the Board of Trade how much money was granted or taken up by the Government as capital for the development of dyestuff production in this country between 1914 and 1924;...
11. asked the Secretary of State for War the number of boys engaged on explosives work in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich?
13. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland, in view of his recommendation in Circular No. 2,292 (Methods of Treatment), issued on 16th January, 1929, if he is aware that recently lads between...
14. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what decision he has come to in regard to the recent proposal to permit trawling in an area of the Clyde hitherto closed to trawling?
15. asked the Lord Advocate whether his attention has been called to the action of the Glasgow Corporation in refusing recognition to a non-political union of municipal employés and making...
54. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the Glasgow Central Local Employment Committee has not had a chairman for 18 months and that no meetings have been held since April,...
16. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he has any available information giving the comparative wages and hours worked by miners in this country, in Silesia on the Polish side, and in the mines...
The following question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. POTTS: 17. "To ask the Secretary for Mines, whether in the coal-mining industry sales agency commission deducted from the...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can make any statement in regard to the loss of eight miners' lives in the Coombs Wood pit, Halesowen.
18. asked the Secretary for Mines whether the Department for Scientific Research has undertaken any experiments as to the use of pulverised coal fuel for the Royal Navy; what has been the nature...
43. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the borings for the foundations of the graving dock at Singapore have been successful; and whether the graving dock has been commenced?
asked the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can now make any statement as to the provision of Pensions for officers and engineer officers serving in Royal Naval Fleet Auxiliaries...
20. asked the Minister of Transport whether his attention has been called to the fact that workmen employed on the Morley tunnel, near Leeds, only narrowly averted a crowded train from the danger...
21. asked the Minister of Transport whether he has received a report of an accident which occurred at a level crossing near Wennington, between Rainham and Purfleet, on Sunday, 10th March, in...
22. asked the Minister of Transport if he can give an estimate of the date when the streets damaged by the gas explosion in Holborn are expected to be again open for traffic?
23. asked the Minister of Transport what is the estimated number of men for whom work would be found on road construction per £1,000,000 of expenditure?
24. asked the Minister of Transport if the shipping companies have been consulted with regard to the commercial possibilities of a ship canal between the Forth and Clyde; and if they are in...
25. asked the Minister of Transport if he is yet in a position to say when a decision is likely to be arrived at regarding the removal of Charing Cross Station to the south side of the river and...
26. asked the Minister of Transport whether, owing to the fact that the Tees Conservancy have now decided that an increase of dock accommodation is necessary, he has had any further communication...
27. asked the Minister of Transport whether the engineering reports bearing on she proposed Tay road-bridge are now in his hands; and, if so, what are the findings?
28. asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that the American telegraph companies make no additional charge for the address on a telegram, with the result that the address is invariably given...
30. asked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been called to an inquest held at Hammersmith on Harold Gordon Nash, aged 8, of Oranbrook Road, Chiswick, in which the evidence...
Mr. TINNE: 31. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the postal authorities have caused great inconvenience and annoyance to the inhabitants of Allerton by altering their address...
32. asked the Postmaster-General the number of postal franking machines in use in this country; and whether it is proposed to allow a rebate on the postage?
33. asked the Postmaster-General if his attention has been called to the fact that during the recent fire at Llandudno Post Office a Post Office engineer prevented a fireman from spraying the...
34. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that many villages and scenes of natural or artificial beatuy are disfigured by telegraph poles; and whether, in view of the economic value of...
35. asked the Postmaster-General why although the head post office in Cardiff is stated to be open for business till 9 p.m., money orders are not isued after 8 p.m., although postal orders are...
36. asked the Postmaster-General the number of telephones in use per 1,000 of population of London, Berlin, and New York?
37. asked the Postmaster-General what is the nature of the work given out to private contract in the Edinburgh district; why this work cannot be done by the Post Office engineering staff; and, in...
38. asked the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the extension of telephones in rural areas, he will consider the raising of fees paid to village postmasters; and whether, on account of the...
39. asked the Minister of Pensions the number of final awards which have been reviewed since the Government came into office?
40. asked the Minister of Pensions what procedure he proposes respecting Mr. Ernest Gillett's increased pension claim, having regard to the fact now proved that chronic arthritis, originated in...
41. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs how many of the families or individuals who since January, 1928, have applied for assisted passages to Canada and Australia have failed to...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he can make any further statement about the price of petrol and other oils?
47. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount raised by customs tariffs per capita in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, and Germany, respectively, for the last year...
48. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the number of the total claims and of the British claims against Turkey that have not yet been considered by the international Commission set up...
49. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what sums contributed to the revenue by road users have been appropriated for general taxation in the years 1926–27, 1927–28 and...
55. asked the Minister of Labour whether it is proposed to ratify the international convention of 1926 on repatriation of seamen; and, if not, will he state the reason why?
44. asked the Minister of Health the number of widows in receipt of pensions whose widowhood commenced before 4th January, 1926?
May I ask if the Prime Minister is now in a position to state what business will be taken on Friday next, and can he also say what business will be taken on the remaining days up to the Easter...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend Section one hundred and eighteen of the Companies Act, 1928. The House will remember that last year this Parliament passed a very...
Resolution reported from the Select Committee; That, in the case of the Iveagh Bequest (Ken Wood) [Lords], Petition for Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the...
[4TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Resolutions reported,
"1. That 99,800 Officers, Seamen, Boys, and Royal Marines be employed for the Sea Service, together with 500 for the Royal Marine Police, borne on the books of His Majesty's Ships, at the Royal...
"5. That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £100, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1929,...
"to provide, during Twelve Months for the Discipline and Regulation of the Army and Air Force," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow and to be...
Resolutions reported,
"to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, one thousand nine hundred and...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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