Mr Charles White: Very well, but I was going to refer to something that had not been referred to by other hon. Members. I do not appeal to the Minister at all. Notwithstanding the good character that has been given him, I am sure it is futile appealing to him after what he has said about this matter. But I want to appeal to his supporters or those who usually support him. I want them to be comutineers...
Mr Charles White: 79. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is now prepared to recommend that Article 68 teachers shall be admitted to the benefits of superannuation under similar conditions as other, teachers, especially as they are now recognised as teachers by the Board of Education and the National Union of Teachers, but are unable, owing to the low salaries they receive, to make any...
Mr Charles White: May I also, following the example of the hon. and learned Member for Middleton (Sir R. Adkins), extend my little tribute to the hon. Member for East Leicester (Mr. Banton) on his maiden speech, showing the intense human sympathy which he has with those who need that sympathy most. The Labour party has come in for the usual lecture from the Mover and Seconder of the Amendment. I am not a...
Mr Charles White: 68. asked the President of the Board of Education what, up to the present, is the total amount of the lump sums, additional to pension, paid to teachers who have retired under the Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1918, since it began to operate on 1st April, 1919; and what is the number of the teachers who have received these additional lump sums?
Mr Charles White: 69. asked the President of the Board of Education whether all teachers who served under the Superannuation Acts of 1898 and 1912 had the right, on approaching the retiring age, 65, to make application for extension of service and to have it submitted to and considered by the Board of Education; how many such applications made by teachers during the year ended 31st March, 1918, and that of...
Mr Charles White: 59. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the great inconvenience caused to shopkeepers and the public, especially in watering places and pleasure resorts, owing to the fact that they cannot sell or purchase cigarettes, tobacco, and other commodities after 8 p.m.; whether any extension of time can be granted in such cases where in the interests of the public it is desirable; and, if...
Mr Charles White: This Bill, suddenly sprung upon us to-night, prevents a good many Members who would have liked the opportunity of speaking against it to do so, because they did not expect it would come on. This is a Measure which, I submit, requires very grave consideration. I am not going to impute any sinister motives to the Home Secretary, except to say this: that at one time in his career, when he was...
Mr Charles White: 4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been called to the case of Mr. S. H. Slack, of Calton Lees, near Bakewell, ex-private of the Notts and Derby Regiment, regimental No. 202,583, whose right hand is practically useless owing to a compound fracture sustained on military service, who served 4½ years during the War, and who has now had notice that his pension is to be...
Mr Charles White: I only rise in consequence of what was said by the Secretary for War in the concluding part of his speech. I agree with the Noble Lord the Member for Hitchin (Lord R. Cecil), who alluded to the speech made last week by the hon. and gallant Member for North Down (Sir H. Wilson) with regard to what is necessary to guard us in the event of a European war. I think it necessary to make these...
Mr Charles White: Four-fifths of them have, at any rate, while in the case of other Departments, and certainly in one particular case, less than one-third of the recommendations were adopted. It should, therefore, I think, be made quite clear that those of us who felt it our duty to oppose the Government on this matter did not desire, although we were prepared to take risks, to court disaster to our Empire....
Mr Charles White: I am glad to be told that they are not to be affected.
Mr Charles White: There is no one, I am sure, who listened to the speech of the Secretary of State for War and the impressive speech of the hon. and gallant Member for North Down (Sir H. Wilson) who is not conscious of the extreme gravity of the decision now before us. We agree that there must be large reductions of expenditure, and we all realise that there must be considerable reductions in our fighting...
Mr Charles White: I am sure we are all obliged for the trouble which the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Financial Secretary has taken in putting these figures before us; but I think most hon. Members will agree that they are extremely difficult to follow, more especially those which are concerned with the Middle East. In regard to the Middle East, a sort of juggling with figures seems to go on. Sums are...
Mr Charles White: 9. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland the total number of officers and men of the Army who were kidnapped by Sinn Fein in Ireland between 1st July, 1919, and the date of the truce, specifying those who were subsequently released and those who are presumed to have been murdered?
Mr Charles White: 54. asked the Chief Secretary the number of persons kidnapped by Sinn Fein in Ireland between 1st August, 1920, and the date of the truce, showing whether military, police, or civilians, and specifying how many of these were subsequently released and how many are presumed to have been murdered?
Mr Charles White: 64. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue the State has derived from the Excise Duty on home-grown sugar for the current financial year; and the rate per ton at which duty is levied?
Mr Charles White: 6. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will reconsider the case of ex-Lance-Corporal S. Botham, No. 202561, Notts and Derby Regiment, of Bakewell, who had his pension reduced by 108. a week on 21st December, 1921; whether he is aware that this man has lost one leg, had the shin bone taken out of the other, and whose left arm is useless, and that this man has never had an artificial leg...
Mr Charles White: 4. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that Sir William Ashley, who is now presiding over the Committee appointed to consider an application from certain manufacturers for the imposition of a duty of 33â per cent. on certain imported glassware, has been identified with a movement for securing the imposition of a tariff on imports into this country and was associated...
Mr Charles White: 5. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, although the Safeguarding of Industries Act only empowers him to appoint as members of particular Committees under Part II of the same, such gentlemen as may be already appointed as members of the permanent panel which the Act authorises him to nominate, Committees have, notwithstanding, been appointed by him in connection with the...
Mr Charles White: 37. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether, in the interests of economy, it has been decided that, as was the case before the War, the salary of only one Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury shall be borne upon the Votes?
