Wednesday, 18 April 1934
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Shipley) Bill.
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give particulars of the communication sent by the Chinese delegation to the League of Nations to the Manchukuo Committee of the...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give particulars of the arrangement concluded by the United States of America with the secretariat of the League of Nations for the...
7. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the speech made recently by Herr Anton Scherer, a deputy leader of the Nazi party, at Dillingen, Saar,...
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has read the charges made in evidence before the Committee of the Second Assembly of the League of Nations declaring that bribery had...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware of the fact that a British youth named Richard Havelock Clark, aged 17, has been arrested in Madrid, and will he state the...
5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that Chile continues in complete default on her obligation to British investors in her foreign loans; and will he state...
6. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state what is the latest information which His Majesty's Government has as to the payment of compensation to dispossessed landowners...
8. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to the anti-God broadcast in English on Easter Sunday from the Soviet wireless station at Noginsk; and if,...
11. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Government of Hong Kong accept and deliver mails from Manchukuo; and, if so, what arrangement has been made with the Manchukuo...
12. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether a reply has now been sent to the petition addressed to him by the Arab community in Mombasa?
Sir R- HAMILTON: 13. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he has any information as to the intention to introduce a new squatter ordinance into Kenya Colony; and whether a copy of the...
14. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the number of licences for prospecting that have been granted at Kakamega; and whether any other persons than British citizens have been given...
19. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if his attention has been called to the sentence of death passed by a Nairobi court, on Odongo, a member of the Kavirondo tribe, for the murder...
16. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the number of Natives of Nigeria tried and executed during the three years 1931, 1932 and 1933 without being allowed to employ counsel in...
17. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what action he proposes to take on the report of the commissioner appointed by him to inquire into the financial situation of Seychelles?
20. asked the Undersecretary of State for Air if he will state the average number of hours flown by service members of the Air Council during 1933 either as pilots or passengers in military machines?
21. asked the Undersecretary of State for Air if he will give particulars of the Empire air-day arranged by the Empire Air League at various Royal Air Force stations on 24th May?
22. asked the Undersecretary of State for Air the number of children who, under the age of 16, have made solo flights in British aerodromes during the last six months or nearest convenient date;...
23. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air if he will take steps to ensure that all regulations and provisions prohibiting dangerous flying and certain other forms of aerial exhibition are...
Captain BALFOUR: 24. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he can now make any further statement regarding the progress of experiments being carried on by the Air Ministry and the...
25. asked the Minister of Transport whether the Electricity Board in its selection of stations for the supply of electricity exercises any prefer- ence for British companies; and whether he can...
26. asked the Minister of Transport how many fatal accidents took place on the roads over the Easter holidays; how this compared with the same period in 1933; how many motor vehicles were...
27. asked the Minister of Transport whether he will consider the use of studded paths for pedestrians' crossings, which have been so successful in Paris for many years, in London, instead of the...
29. asked the Minister of Transport what are the total profits, after deducting maintenance charges, from tolls on the Menai Bridge to the latest available date; whether this sum is being set...
31. asked the Minister of Transport whether with a view to increased efficiency of road transport on the East Coast, especially in the event of war, and with a view to the provision of...
32. asked the Minister of Transport the total road mileage included in the 30 miles an hour speed-limit area granted by his Department to the city of Oxford?
33. asked the Minister of Transport whether his attention has been drawn to the accident which occurred at Shrewsbury on the 22nd July, 1933, when Harold Norman Harris and Florence Gertrude...
Mr. TEMPLE MORRIS: 34. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is satisfied that his legislative proposals affecting tithe are fair to Welsh tithe-payers and adequate to deal with the...
35. asked the Minister of Agriculture what are the actual restrictions now in force with regard to the importation of foreign skimmed and full-cream condensed milk, sterilised cream, and milk powder?
Captain SHAW: 36. asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of potato producers in Scotland who voted in favour of the potato marketing scheme; and the acreage which they represented?
Mr. TEMPLE MORRIS: 37. asked the President of the Board of Trade the numbers of countries which have adopted either regulations or laws making it mandatory that all national goods produced or...
40. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the fact that the imports of strawboard from the Netherlands have increased from 345,000 cwts. in the first...
38. asked the President of the Board of Trade the total output of pig-iron and steel in the years 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933, respectively, in the United Kingdom, United States of America,...
46 and 47. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (1) whether it is the intention of the Government to continue the Ottawa Agreements after next June; (2), whether he can give an...
48. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he will give a list of the cases in which the Australian Government have increased the duties against British manufactured goods...
41. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many protests he has received from Greenock against the decision of the Scottish Milk Marketing Board to charge winter prices for summer...
42. asked the Minister of Health the total surpluses disclosed by approved societies under the National Health Insurance as the result of the last three valuations, giving each valuation separately?
43. asked the Minister of Health whether the Committee on London Refuse have finished their deliberations; and, if so, will he state the nature of their conclusions?
44. asked the Secretary for Mines the number of persons employed in and about the coal mines in the county of Durham for the week ended 30th December, 1933, and the corresponding week in 1932?
45. asked the Secretary for Mines whether the proposals before the coalowners as a substitution for the provisions of the Coal Mines Bill are the same as provided in the Bill; and, in the event...
49. asked the Postmaster-General whether mails to this country from Hong Kong sent via Siberia are transmitted via Dairen and Manchuli or via Vladivostok?
50 and 51. asked the Postmaster-General (1) the cost of installing the overhead conveyor band in the Glasgow general post office which extends from the primary sorting section to the foreign...
Lieut. Colonel Sir ARNOLD WILSON: 52. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of male adolescents under instruction in Home Office training schools at the latest date for...
53. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that the British "Union of Fascists are holding a demon stration on Sunday, 22nd April; that applications for tickets have been received from Germany,...
54. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why the Crown copyright has not been reserved on memoranda of evidence submitted by interested parties to the Industrial Assurance Committee; and...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any further communication from the French Government on the subject of disarmament?
That they have agreed to,—
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee C: Mr. Colman, Mr. Henderson Stewart, and Mr. John Wallace;...
Mr. William Nicholson further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee D: Sir George Hamilton and Mr. Robert Smith; and had appointed in...
Reported with Amendments [Costs awarded, Title amended]; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Considered in Committee [Progress, 17th April].
Question against proposed, That it is expedient to amend the law relating to National Debt, Customs, and Inland Revenue (including Excise) and to make further provision in connection with...
Considered in Committee, under Standing Order No. 69.
Considered in Committee, under Standing Order No. 69.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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