Wednesday, 27 July 1955
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
SALFORD CORPORATION BILL
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it was with his authority that consultations took place between the Governor of the Seychelles and the Bishop of Mauritius, as a result of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the estimated expenditure by the Government of British Guiana during the next quinquennium upon workers' housing; and what proportions of this are...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies to what extent it is the practice of his Department, when envelopes are in use for the first time, to send them out with economy labels containing...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the elections are to be held in Trinidad in 1955, as provided for by the 1950 Constitution.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what steps are being actively taken by the nominated Legislative Council of British Guiana to bring this territory within the proposed West Indies...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware of the disappointment that has been expressed in the Colony, at the allocation to Jamaica of £4,250,000 under the colonial...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when the new West Indian coinage is to be put into circulation.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what assistance in the development programme of British Honduras is being given by the Foreign Operations Administration of the United States of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what investigation he is making into the reasons for the continued emigration from Jamaica to this country.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will seek to have included in the terms of the Caribbean Federation a provision removing all restrictions on the free movement of West...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the position in Singapore following the proposed resignation of the Chief Minister.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is aware that Mr. P. L. D. Pointon, of Ladywood, Birmingham, when serving as a police lieutenant in Malaya, was accommodated in a storeroom 6...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies to make a statement on the progress of negotiations with the Mauritian delegation regarding constitutional changes.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the total acreage of the land which the Kenya Government recently confiscated from 3,097 rank and file Mau Mau and 324 Mau Mau leaders.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what public works by forced labour are being carried out in the Kikuyu Reserve; and whether he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds Anarghyros Stamatopoulos, a senior member of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus, has been given 14 days' notice to leave the island.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many people have so far been detained without trial under the new detention law in Cyprus.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many Greek subjects are resident in Cyprus; and how many have been requested to leave during the last twelve months.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what Cooperative organisations are registered in each Colony, Protectorate, and/or Trusteeship Territory; and the membership in each case.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what trade unions are registered in each Colony, Protectorate, and/or Trusteeship Territory; and the membership in each case.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies in which Colonies and Protectorates statutory minimum wages are in operation; and what these minimum wages are.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies under what circumstances governors have in recent years used their discretion to allow Ministers in Colonial Territories to continue their business...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the uncertainty concerning the careers of administrative officers in certain Colonial Territories, of which the hon. Member for...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will require that the proposed Section 28 (a) of the Interpretation Ordinance of Northern Rhodesia should be revised so that, until the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why only Europeans are appointed as honorary game rangers in Northern Rhodesia.
Mrs. White: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many chiefs and native authority officials in Northern Rhodesia have been deposed or dismissed or officially threatened with...
Mr. Dugdale: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what period of imprisonment can be imposed for the offence of the publication of false reports likely to cause public fear and alarm or...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the present position of the demand by the National Liberation Movement in the Gold Coast; how far proposals have been made for the amicable...
Mrs. White: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what progress has been made in the discussions with the delegation from Sierra Leone.
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he will make a statement on the claim by oil companies for compensation for oil stocks which disappeared in the closing days of the fighting in the Far...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty to what extent it is the practice of his Department, when envelopes are in use for the first time, to send them out with economy labels containing the...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty why Her Majesty's Government agreed to the transfer of the Simonstown naval base to the Union of South Africa.
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty (1) the steps he has now taken to secure stricter control and supervision of speed marches, following the death of Marine D. Rhyce-Rees on such a march; and...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the present strength of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in Dundee.
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty how many visits by Her Majesty's ships are being paid to coastal resorts this summer; and which places have been or will be visited.
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty in view of the further interference to local television reception caused by the New Waltham Naval Wireless Telegraphy Station, if he will have an...
Mr. Dugdale: asked the First Lord of the Admiralty when it is intended to publish the next edition of "The Health of the Navy"; and if he will make this publication available to hon. Members.
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty to what extent south coast shipyards may expect to receive orders for some of the smaller vessels which the South African Government are to have constructed...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he will make a statement on the request which he has received from the Confederation of Shipbuilding Unions for a public inquiry into the placing of...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will state the business for the week when the House resumes?
Proceedings on Government Business exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House).—[Mr. Crookshank.]
House to meet Tomorrow at Eleven o'clock; no Questions to be taken after Twelve o'clock; and at Five o'clock Mr. Speaker to adjourn the House without putting any Question.—[Mr. Crookshank.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House, at its rising Tomorrow, do adjourn till Tuesday, 25th October.—[Mr. Crookshank.]
Order for Second Reading read.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Buchan-Hepburn.]
6.3 p.m.
Question again proposed, That this House do now adjourn.
Resolution reported; That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to extend the powers of friendly societies, and amend the Friendly Societies Acts, 1896 to 1948; to make provision...
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the Third time and passed.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Colonel J. H. Harrison.]
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