Mr Charles White: 93. asked the hon. Member for the Pollok Division of Glasgow, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether any new buildings are to be erected at Cairo; and what is the approximate cost?
Mr Charles White: I will only—[HON. MEMBERS: "Divide!"]—take three or four minutes. I have sat during the whole of this Debate, and I may perhaps be allowed to put the side of the question that has not been put, seeing now we have the largest House since the Debate opened. I am amazed at the lack of interest that has been shown in this very important matter, which affects so many households in the country....
Mr Charles White: To-night I have heard the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith) held up as a paragon of all that is good by the right hon. Gentleman opposite, and he has been spoken of by the hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Ormsby-Gore) in terms which I am sure every hon. Member will deprecate. I am sorry the Leader of the House did not quote to us his own speeches, because after condemning...
Mr Charles White: I was trying to show how the time of the House has been wasted, and how it is now proposed to penalise the House in consequence. I think we should have a free discussion on this most important Motion without any time allocation at all. I am not sanguine that we could carry on our opposition for ten days because we should not get an answer to any of our questions. We shall find the dumb and...
Mr Charles White: 18. asked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that shooting by the police took place at the town of Tralee on the 8th August, 1920, and again on the 14th August; that on the 31st November the county hall and a number of houses were destroyed by the police; and that on the 16th April a creamery and several houses in the neighbourhood were burnt down, on the 19th April the offices of the...
Mr Charles White: The right hon. Gentleman did much to disarm criticism amongst many Members who were much opposed to these new proposals by his frank and lucid statement, and more especially by the notification that the proposed increases in the rates for foreign printed matter have been withdrawn. That was my principal ground of objection to the proposals, but I put very little short of that my strong...
Mr Charles White: It is separate accounts I want.
Mr Charles White: 12. asked the Chief Secretary whether an inquiry has been held into the alleged wrecking by the police of many houses at Castlerea, County Roscommon, on the 2nd August last; and whether any punishments have been inflicted?
Mr Charles White: As this occurred in August last, is it not time some report had been received about it?
Mr Charles White: May I ask you, Sir, whether a Member is not entitled to ask questions which have as their foundations reports in the public Press of this country? That is exactly what my questions are founded on.
Mr Charles White: 13. asked the Chief Secretary whether any official inquiry has been held into the alleged theft of goods from the shops of Mr. Robert Campbell and Mrs. Clarke, of Roscommon, on the 15th of October last; is he aware that compensation, amounting in all to £1,083, was awarded by Judge Wakeley at Roscommon County Sessions, at which it was stated that the looting was done by members of the Crown...
Mr Charles White: 14. asked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that shoot- ing by the police took place at the town of Tralee on the 8th August, 1920, and again on the 14th August; that on the 31st November the county hall and a number of houses were destroyed by the police; that on the 23rd March, 1921, shots were fired from a machine gun at St. John's parish church; and that on the 16th April a creamery...
Mr Charles White: Is it the intention of the Government to undertake any legislation on this subject? Will the free vote of the House as last night be allowed?
Mr Charles White: 58. asked the Chief Secretary whether he can state the number and the nature of the guard usually posted at the Dublin Customs House before it was burned?
Mr Charles White: I think the Government should have accepted the Report of the Select Committee in its entirety without altering it in the least. I am not going to impute motives to any hon. Member on the other side as to why he has spoken as he has and is going to vote as he is. I have some very strong opinions sitting on that Committee, and I issued a special Report of my own. But I want to speak as to the...
Mr Charles White: 33. asked the Prime Minister whether, seeing that Members of Parliament voluntarily surrendered the privilege of franking letters when penny postage was established, and in view of the all-round increase in postal charges, he will reconsider the recommendation of the Select Committee to allow Members of Parliament a limited amount of free postage?
Mr Charles White: 5. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will reconsider the pension of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkinson, of Two Dales, near Matlock, whose son, Private J. W. Wilkinson, No. 29,166, East Lancashire Regiment, was killed in October, 1916, and in respect of whom she was receiving a pension of 12s. 6d., plus 20 per cent. bonus, up to 3rd May last, when it was reduced to 8s. 5d. a week without bonus,...
Mr Charles White: 77. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the great delay in payment of unemployment benefit at the employment exchange, Matlock, where many applicants entitled to such benefit have not received any pay for 8 to 10 weeks; and whether he will take such steps as may be necessary to facilitate the payments due, as much suffering and privation prevails amongst the applicants?
Mr Charles White: 23. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can state the amount which has been spent on road-making in Mesopotamia, and how much will be spent in the course of the present financial year?
Mr Charles White: 24 asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) when he will make a statement with regard to his visit to the Middle East and its results; (2) whether he can make a statement with regard to the recent disturbances in Palestine?
