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• Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment.: Benefit. 1 Aug 1923

  29. asked the Minister of Labour if he will promote further co-operation between the Employment Exchanges and the guardians by giving instructions for records to be kept of the grounds upon which applicants for unemployed benefit are refused, these records to be available for the use of guardians?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment.: Cost-of-Living Index. 1 Aug 1923

  28. asked the Minister of Labour what retail prices for the pur-

• Orders of the Day — Slaughtering of Animals Bill. 27 Apr 1923

  I appeal to the House to allow the Bill to go to Second Reading. I am associated with the trade which has very much to do with the slaughter of animals.

• Orders of the Day — Importation of Animals Bill: Clause 1. — (Importation of Canadian store cattle.) 11 Dec 1922

  I sincerely hope the Government will not accept the Amendment. The Mover made a very damaging statement against the breeders of this country when he said that animals are killed in his own town suffering from tuberculosis, and the parts are cut off and sold to people in the shops.

• Orders of the Day — Importation of Animals Bill: Clause 1. — (Importation of Canadian store cattle.) 11 Dec 1922

  I have had a good deal to do with the meat trade, though not in the inspection of meat. I have known no meat which has been passed with tuberculous parts cut away and the other parts sold. To let the statement go forth from this House that cows which are suffering from tuberculosis are sold and distributed over the country will have a very damaging effect upon the trade in general. We are...

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