Former MP for Mid Bedfordshire
10. asked the Minister of Transport whether he has yet received the Report of the Conference on Traffic Noises; and, if so, whether he proposes to publish it?
16. asked the President of the Board of Education if, having regard to the number of accidents reported as occurring to children through motor traffic, he will consider the advisability of issuing a recommendation to all schools throughout the country that children should be repeatedly warned of the risks they incur in crossing streets and playing games in streets and roads?
Does the Noble Lady think that the instruction that has been issued throughout the country is being effectively carried out? I am aware that the accidents in London are fewer, but are they fewer throughout the country?
It has been said that reiteration is the secret of conviction, and, after the Debate which took place in April last and the speech made by the Proposer of the Bill, all the arguments in its support have been, in great measure, covered. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood) treated the Bill as a complicated one but to my mind it is a very...
I beg to differ from the right hon. and gallant Gentleman. At present, any number of gentlemen may join together, start a limited company and sell diplomas for architecture. They may call themselves by some name such as "Fellows of the Association of British Architects," and the whole point is this, that initials like "F.A.B.A.," if used a great deal on notepaper, are likely to mislead the...
What I said was that they had these schools, that the people who attended them did from five to six years' careful training, and that, when they left those schools, with all these high qualifications, they were only in the same position as anyone who had had no training, so far as being known as an architect was concerned.
58. asked the Secretary of State for War if he will consider the possibility of any steps being taken to rectify the grievance of officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers stationed at Ceylon, who now receive their pay and allowances in sterling at the stabilised rate of exchange, 1s. 6d. to the rupee, instead of at the original rate, 15 rupees to the £l, on which the pay and...
21. asked the President of the Board of Education under whose direction and at what places is research work being carried out in connection with the cold storage of fruit; has it been found that fruit preserved in cold storage is susceptible to any special diseases; and is it proposed to publish information as to the recent results of the investigations made as to the most suitable...
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