Wednesday, 11 April 1934
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Cardiff Corporation Bill,
"to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State under the Marriages Validity (Provisional Orders) Acts, 1905 and 1924," presented by Mr....
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many countries have ratified the convention on the international status of stateless refugees?
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that Mr. William Maxwell Bickerton, an English master resident in Tokio and a British subject, was arrested and imprisoned...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any report from the League of Nations, or from any other source, on the possibility of settling Assyrian refugees from...
9. asked the Under Secretary of State for Air, whether, in view of the relatively small number of firms engaged in the aircraft industry, he will state what action is taken by the Ministry to...
11. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether his attention has been called to a solo flight made at Abridge, Essex, aerodrome by a boy aged 14; whether any aerodrome licensing...
13. asked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware that, as a result of the electricity supply in the Sutton and Wallington districts, previously supplied by the South Metropolitan Electric...
15. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he has now received any reply from the Government of Japan upon his representations subsequent to the breakdown of the recent negotiations?
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to the wearing of French berets by girls at Brownhills High School, Tunstall; and whether he...
30. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can now make a statement upon the position of the silk duties and the suspension of their consideration by the Import Duties Advisory Committee?
Mr. BOOTH BY (for Mr. BRACKEN): 8. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will make a full statement as to the present position of the negotiations in regard to the restriction...
Captain ARTHUR EVANS: 16. asked the President of the Board of Trade what action is intended, in response to the invitations from the Danish, Netherlands, Norwegian and Swedish Ministers, to...
17. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what arrangements are made under the regulations of administration of Sections 82 to 84 of the Education Act, 1921, for recording...
Mr. BOOTH BY: 20. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he has taken to fill the vacancy in the secretary-ship to the Department of Agriculture for Scotland caused by the...
37. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the fee stamp office, which has been in existence in the Register House, Edinburgh, for many years, has been closed...
14. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether his Department supplies any dust-allaying compound to Government Departments requiring this for the treatment of the floors of offices from which...
4 asked the First Lord of the Admiralty (1) whether any documents were signed by Maltese canteen contractors at the request of Admiralty officials when the former were to be superseded during the...
21. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware of a recent decision of the court of session, who held that a will, not containing in gremio a declaration that it was holograph,...
22. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether any decision has been arrived at regarding a loan to herring-fishing-boat owners for the replacement of nets and gear?
23. asked the Secretary for Mines if he will state the number of cases where royalties paid on coal produced in South Wales exceed 1s. per ton; and will he give the highest amount paid in...
26. asked the Minister of Health if he will state the total number of patients in mental hospitals in Great Britain in 1931, 1932, 1933, and the latest date on which figures are available, giving...
27. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he will give the figures for 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933 of those who have joined the Army who later on have been found to be under the age...
29. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state how many people were killed by road accidents in the period from midnight on Thursday, 29th March, to midnight on Monday,...
12. asked the Minister of Transport whether he will introduce legislation to standardise railway fares and to abolish the anomalies which arise owing to the practice of railway companies in...
31. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will ascertain what steps the city of Montreal has recently taken to obtain a loan in London; and will he, for the protection of the public in the...
32. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in order that the German authorities may be under no misapprehension prior to their forthcoming declaration, he will make it clear beyond doubt...
33. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion the token sum paid by Italy to the United States of America, on account of war debts, bears to her total annual indebtedness?
34. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the fact that the Macmillan Committee examined monetary policy only on the basis of the gold standard and that no alternative was...
35. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what would be the gross loss to the Exchequer of reducing the standard rate of Income Tax by 1s. in the £, assuming that incomes assessable...
36. asked the Financial Sec- retary to the Treasury what would be the total present cost to the Exchequer of restoring the cuts made in 1931 (excluding cuts in unemployment benefit) in the...
38. asked the Minister of Labour the estimated annual balance of the Unemployment Fund on the basis of the present unemployment figures?
39. asked the Minister of Labour if he will state the total amount saved on unemployment benefit since the reduced rates came into operation in 1931 and the total amount saved since the operation...
7. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that, in connection with the collection of last year's tax from the Kavirondo tribe in Kenya Colony, an elderly native named...
Motion made, and Question put, "That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the Houses)."—[The...
I beg to move That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to the sale by retail of excisable liquors. The Bill is a short one and contains seven Clauses only. The first...
Reported, with Amendments, from the Select Committee.
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A: Miss Graves; and had appointed in substitution: Mr. Stones.
Considered in Committee.
The following proviso shall be added at the end of section seventy-six of the Army Act (which relates to the limit of original enlistment):— Provided also that where a boy is enlisted...
At the end of Sub-section (1) of Section eighty of the Army Act (which relates to the mode of enlistment and attestation) the following Sub-section shall be added:— The general conditions...
Considered in Committee.
6.2 p.m.
Before I call upon the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. D. Graham) to move his Amendment—in page 3, line 29, after "exceeding," insert "on a first conviction"—I must point out that that...
I beg to move, in page 3, line 32, to leave out from "1883" to "shall," in line 33, and to insert: both as originally enacted and as applied by Section five of this Act.
10.44 p.m.
10.49 p.m.
For the purpose of the enforcement of the enactments relating to illegal trawling Sections twelve and fourteen of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883 (which relate to powers and protection of sea fishery...
Where any vessel is used for the purposes of illegal trawling and damage is thereby caused to any nets or gear belonging to persons engaged in lawful fishing, the court shall, on conviction,...
Bill read the Third time, and passed.
Read a Second time.
Read a Second time.
Order [2nd March] that the Bill be committed to a Standing Committee read, and discharged.
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