Monday, 23 July 1934
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
North Wales Electric Power Bill [Lords] (by Order),
1. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that a clerk named B. K. Mukerjee, employed in the locomotive workshop of the East Indian State Railway at Lucknow, was discharged on...
2. asked the Secretary of State for India what reply the Government has given to the notification of the Aga Khan to the Government of India of his desire to possess an estate in India?
Duchess of ATHOLL: 3. asked the Secretary of State for India if he has approved the recent acquiesence of the Government of India in the sale of the Imperial Forest College and Research Institute...
Duchess of ATHOLL: 4. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that in the past the principle has been accepted by the Government of India that, in view of the reluctance shown...
5. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that a meeting arranged by the League against Gandhism at the Albert Hall, Calcutta, on 14th July was declared unlawful; that on 18th...
6. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he will make a statement regarding the present position of the textile workers in India; whether the millowners of Bombay have agreed to the...
Captain CAZALET: 8. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any reply has been received from the Spanish Government to the representations made by His Majesty's Ambassador in...
10. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is yet in a position to make a full statement of the circumstances in which British officers were fired on by Turkish soldiers and...
12. asked the Secretary of State far Foreign Affairs whether he can now state what has been the outcome of the representations made by him to the Finnish Government regarding the arrest of the...
13. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there has been a favourable response to the draft rules for the treatment of prisoners circulated by the League of Nations to States...
14. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, as the imports of eggs from the following countries in the first six months of 1934 showed an increase as compared with imports in 1933, he will...
15. asked the Minister of Agriculture, taking 1925 as the base year for agricultural wages and prices, what would be the present agricultural wage if wages had declined to the same extent as...
16. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can now state the date when he expects to receive the Report of the Poultry Commission?
18. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has any information to give to the House about the steps he proposes to take in view of the decision given in the King's Bench Division in...
20. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether there are in the possession of his Department any artistic items of bronze or stone statuary by British artists or any garden decorations for...
25. asked the Attorney-General the number of actions now awaiting trial in each of the ordinary lists of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; how many of these actions were set...
21. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether he is aware that considerable areas at the north-east end of Hyde Park behind the orators' rostra have long been denuded of turf; and whether he...
29. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has made a full inquiry into the importation of foreign cartridges into this country; and, if so, is he satisfied that no infringement of...
30 and 31. asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) whether he is aware that the imports of electrical goods during the first six monts of 1934 reached a value of £1,313,923, as...
36. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can make a statement as to the position of the negotiations for a trade agreement with Holland?
49. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he has been in communication with the Australian Government with regard to their prospective treatment of British goods in the event...
33. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the imports of cotton yarns have risen by 69.6 per cent. in the first six months of 1934 as compared with the corresponding...
38. asked the Minister of Health whether His Department have any evidence that cancer of the lung may be caused by dust from tarred roads; and if there are any known fatal eases of lung cancer...
41. asked the Minister of Health whether he will authorise an inquiry into the pollution of the rivers flowing into the Bristol Channel; whether he will require local authorities to take joint...
52. asked the Minister of Labour the present debt of the Unemployment Fund, and also the present assets of the fund which have not been used for the reduction of debt?
43. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the facts disclosed by the recent social survey of Merseyside that Irish immigration to Merseyside is at the rate of about 6,000 a year, and...
44. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider taking steps in the near future to grant to those who have continuously paid into the Unemployment Insurance Fund without drawing any...
45. asked the Minister of Labour the number of training and reconditioning centres in the Wales Division and in the United Kingdom; the number of persons in each of the two areas who have been...
46 and 48. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) whether he is aware that on the 19th October, 1933, Mr. Pedro Carrasco, blacksmith in the employ of the Gibraltar Gas Company, was...
47. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the contractors for the supply of milk to the Colonial Hospital at Gibraltar are Spanish refugees; that the firm...
50. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether, in view of the fact that a teacher's pension is calculated on the basis of the average salary for the last five years of...
51. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is in a position to state what steps are being taken to remedy the serious block in the promotion of officers at present existing in...
53. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has yet consulted with the leaders of the opposition parties as to measures for securing order at public meetings.
56. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether a date has been agreed upon with the British Museum when the subscription list to the cost of the Bible known as the Codex Sinaiticus...
7. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the present position regarding the embargo on the export of arms to Bolivia and Paraguay; and whether all the member States of the League of...
17. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has any further statement to make as to the proposed order limiting the right of the public to access to Rombalds Moor, in the West Riding of...
19. asked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been drawn to the non-delivery of letters addressed from the United Kingdom to British subjects staying in Germany; the reason for it;...
26. asked the Attorney-General for what reasons the Romford County Court is being closed down in September and being transferred to Ilford, as Ilford is a subsidiary court to Romford?
37. asked the Minister of Health whether he can give any information to the House about a private contractor buying water from the High Wycombe, Bucks, Water Company and selling it to the...
39. asked the Minister of Health whether he has now received a final report from the general inspector of the district regarding the action of the Colne Town Council in evicting people from...
40. asked the Minister of Health whether he will arrange to collect information showing the number of widows who lose pensions owing to their husbands being short of four or fewer stamps in the...
52. asked the Home Secretary whether he has received a report from one of his inspectors in connection with the death of a man who was electrocuted at the Warrington Products Works, Longford; and...
54. asked the Home Secretary whether he can give the names of those licensing districts which, subsequent to the passing of the Licensing (Permitted Hours) Act, have extended the hours of sale...
May I ask the Lord President of the Council whether he has any statement to make on business, and also whether he can say what Orders will be taken to-day?
That they have agreed to,—
That they have agreed to certain of the Amendments made by the Commons to the Bill, without Amendment; to certain others, with an Amendment; and to one other, with Amendments; and they have made...
Fourth Report from the Committee on Public Petitions brought up, and read;
Order for Second Reading upon Friday read, and discharged: —Bill withdrawn.
Order for Second Reading upon Friday read, and discharged: —Bill withdrawn.
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Clause stand part of the Bill.
4.35 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Considered in Committee.
Resolution reported, That, under any Act of the present Session to enable effect to be given to a Convention for a Regulation of Whaling and to make provision for other matters, such fees as may...
Resolution reported, That there shall be paid into the Exchequer— (a) all fees received under any Act of the present Session to enable effect to be given to a Convention for the Regulation...
Resolution reported, That, for the purpose of any Act of the present Session to enable effect to be given to a Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Sir Lambert Ward.]
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