Mr Herbert Williams: Will my right hon. Friend explain how an Act passed in 1926, when there was no Republic of Ireland, applies to the present time when there is a Republic of Ireland?
Mr Herbert Williams: As two private Bills have been put down for 7 o'clock on Wednesday, and as, I understand, the first of them may run for a considerable time, is it the intention to move to suspend the rule so that both these private Bills can be dealt with on Wednesday evening?
Mr Herbert Williams: Having regard to the fact that the United States are the real authors of G.A.T.T., why do they not obey the G.A.T.T. they invented?
Mr Herbert Williams: Is my right hon. Friend aware that his speech as Grand Marshal of the Primrose League appears in the "Primrose League Gazette," which can be bought at the bookstalls?
Mr Herbert Williams: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As the essential part of the Petition is addressed to Her Majesty's Government and not to this honourable House, is this Petition in order?
Mr Herbert Williams: Is it not a fact that in the past the British Government have often asserted the right to stop gunrunning by ships not flying the British flag?
Mr Herbert Williams: Mr. Speaker, I wish to raise a question of privilege. In today's "Daily Mail" there is a report of a speech by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell). I will read the report if I may: Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, Socialist M.P. for Easington, predicted an election at the end of the year when he spoke at Blaydon-on-Tyne, Durham, Labour Party gala. He said it would be an...
Mr Herbert Williams: asked the Minister of Education the cost of maintaining a child at the London County Council residential school at Wolverstone, Surrey.
Mr Herbert Williams: Since the maintenance cost in this school is higher than at Eton, Borstal or Haileybury, will my right hon. Friend consider the possibility of closing it down and transferring the children to one or other of those three eminent educational institutions?
Mr Herbert Williams: As there are no usual channels functioning in regard to Monday's business, and as somebody fixed up with somebody unknown to us to debate on Monday an unknown Motion, is it not about time that the rest of the House was treated with some respect and given some information?
Mr Herbert Williams: I have no National Park in my constituency, and see no prospect of one, but we shall contribute to the National Parks in the North of England. I should be grateful if my hon. Friend would say how much this will cost. My constituents will have to pay for the National Parks wanted by the two hon. Gentlemen from the North who have moved and supported the Prayer.
Mr Herbert Williams: This National Park is about 200 miles from where they live. It is all very well, but we are always proposing new expenditure out of the Exchequer, and my hon. Friend has not said one word about what this is likely to cost. My constituents and I should like to know how much it will cost to walk along the Pennine Way from one end to the other. I do not think they are interested in the Pennine...
Mr Herbert Williams: On a point of order. I read in the Press that the subject of this Adjournment Motion was to be an attack on the conduct of the Minister. It is news to me that on the Adjournment, which is merely the way we go home, the subject should be announced as an attack on the conduct of a Minister. Since then I understand that there has been some withdrawal. I should like to know what the position is...
Mr Herbert Williams: Would my hon. Friend give the figure of at least what was provided in this connection in last year's Estimates, because that has already been published, and might help us?
Mr Herbert Williams: Has my hon. Friend gone into the question I raised a few days ago, in connection with the subsidised lobster fishery in that part of the country, which is a great failure?
Mr Herbert Williams: I do not think that this Amendment would cost very much. If it did I should not support it, because I do not think that there should be any decrease in taxation unless one brings about a decrease in expenditure. It is rather important that we should establish the fact that there is some connection between taxation and expenditure—something which seems to be ignored both in this Committee...
Mr Herbert Williams: I do not know where it was ill-mannered and where it was inaccurate.
Mr Herbert Williams: Will the hon. Gentleman quote one inaccurate part of the speech?
Mr Herbert Williams: In view of the conciliatory remarks of the Chancellor, I imagine that my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Barkston Ash (Sir L. Ropner) will, in a moment, ask leave to withdraw the Amendment. I think that the Chancellor is entitled to complain that the Amendment appeared only this morning. I discovered that it had gone in and attached my name to it at about 11 o'clock last night. I do...
Mr Herbert Williams: Or sense.
