Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance. – in the House of Commons at on 7 February 1929.
Viscount Sandon
, Shrewsbury
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the statement of a magistrate that 20 men have committed suicide in the last few months in consequence of their positions as secretaries or treasurers of slate clubs, apart from many others found guilty of defalcations in similar capacities; and whether he will inquire into the constitution and arrangements of such clubs?