Mr George Barker: Can the right hon. Gentleman say how many Japanese troops there are in Manchuria?
Mr George Barker: 76. asked the Minister of Transport if he is aware of the dangerous state of a portion of the main highway betwen Brynmawr and Blaenavon; that the Nantyglo and Blaina Urban District Council are unable, through financial straits, to repair this road; that persons using vehicular traffic over this road are continually complaining of its dangerous condition; and will he have this matter...
Mr George Barker: I wish to support the protest made by the hon. Member for West Leicester (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence) with reference to the inadequacy of the accommodation in the Borstal institutions. I think there is nothing that distresses a magistrate more than dealing with juvenile crime. I live in an area where the young men who have comparatively recently left school have not been able to get employment. As...
Mr George Barker: I was referring to the Magistrates who sent him to quarter sessions.
Mr George Barker: What about the landlord?
Mr George Barker: Can the hon. Gentleman tell the House who pays for this publicity?
Mr George Barker: That is all right.
Mr George Barker: 9. asked the Secretary for Mines if he is aware of the damage to house property and other property in Abertillery and other mining areas caused by mining subsidence; and, in view of the publication of the Report last year of the Royal Commission on Mining Subsidence, will he bring in legislation at the earliest date to deal with this grievance?
Mr George Barker: Are the Government going to take action on the question, in view of the fact that a Report has been given by the Committee that has been investigating it?
Mr George Barker: This subject has been a hardy annual for many years. It seems to represent the Utopia of the Imperialist, who, when he gets on the subject of Empire emigration, exclaims, "Eureka! I have found it." It seems to be his staple asset at every election. I am in a difficulty in the matter. How is it that the Government does not deal with the question? There is no opposition. I have not heard a...
Mr George Barker: In South Africa there is plenty of territory. The article in the "Times" stated that General Smuts's great trouble was to find money to assist emigration from South Africa to Australia. That information is not from a Bolshevik source; I am not quoting from a Communist paper, but from the "Times." What is the position in Australia? I will take as a source of information the "Labour Gazette,"...
Mr George Barker: I do not want to intrude my own personality into this Debate. I spent 17 years abroad; I have lived in South Africa and travelled Canada from one end to the other. I have lived in the Straits Settlements, and I think I know something about. this question. I was surprised when I heard the hon. Member for Acton (Sir H. Brittain) say that the Members of the House of Commons ought to get into a...
Mr George Barker: I said that this Debate was a sham.
Mr George Barker: But it shows the tendency.
Mr George Barker: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the voluntary hospital at Blaina is almost closing for want of funds, and in these cases in necessitous areas, will his Department relieve the hospitals?
Mr George Barker: 38. asked the Minister of Health if lie will institute a public inquiry into the whole administration of our mental asylums, in view of the resignation of many of the staff, including the medical officer, and upwards of 30 of the nurses of the Park Prewett Mental Hospital at Basingstoke?
Mr George Barker: 15. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that Mr. Jack Jones, 16, Morley Road, Abertillery (Monmouthshire), has been refused unemployment insurance benefit on the alleged ground that he is not making every reasonable effort to obtain employment, and that Jones has just completed a period of insurable employment which lasted from 8th August of this year to 5th November; and will he have...
Mr George Barker: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the colliery at which this man was employed is closed, and that this man has been open for employment ever since the closing of the colliery, and that it is impossible to get work in that district?
Mr George Barker: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that this man has been employed for 10 weeks this year and that it is not his fault that he is unemployed? He is not the kind of man described by the hon. Gentleman.
Mr George Barker: 16. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that Mr. T. J. Coles, residing at 30, Bishop Street, Abertillery, has been refused unemployment benefit on the ground that he had previously voluntarily left his employment; that Coles had good grounds for believing that he would be employed at another colliery when he tendered notice to leave his employment; that benefit in this case was...