Major Abraham Lyons: Can my non. Friend say whether Canada in the future intends to follow the dollar or to follow sterling?
Major Abraham Lyons: 20 and 21. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (1) what proposals have been made by Dominion representatives for the continuance of the Empire Marketing Board; (2) if he will now indicate the position of the Empire Marketing Board; whether it is to cease; and what amounts have been paid towards its maintenance by this country and by Dominion countries, respectively, during the...
Major Abraham Lyons: Will the right hon. Gentleman assure the House that, if there is any further arrangement for the continuance of this or some similar idea, this country will not be called upon to pay the whole cost of the establishment?
Major Abraham Lyons: 22. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether and upon how many occasions the tariff boards of Canada and Australia have met since the ratification of the Ottawa Agreements; and which British industries have been represented and upon what dates, respectively?
Major Abraham Lyons: May we take it that there is as yet no concrete result from any application by any industry to the Tariff Board of either Canada or Australia, notwithstanding that we are now in July, 1933?
Major Abraham Lyons: Is it not a fact that trade after trade in this country is complaining to-day, and rightly, of material manufactured in the Dominions coming here under cost of production, over which our Tariff Board has no check of any kind, and is that in keeping with the spirit of the Agreement?
Major Abraham Lyons: Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the terms he has indicated as being the terms of the warning are the same given to every newspaper in every particular case?
Major Abraham Lyons: I beg to second the Amendment. It has been fairly and forcibly moved by the hon. Member for South Croydon (Mr. H. Williams). When many of us were approached by the Salford Corporation to give support to this Bill for the better government and arrangement of Salford, while we wished to support them in that object, none of us ever intended to give support to the Clause which is under...
Major Abraham Lyons: I am very much indebted to my hon. Friend for that interpolation. It comes at an extremely odd juncture from one who has been so assiduous, and rightly assiduous, in this House in getting for his borough a grant from national funds because the people of Salford are not in a position to meet their responsibilities, possibly through their own lack of good management. I should like to know how...
Major Abraham Lyons: If this Bill is to have any effect there will be a. complete department of the local authority set up to consider, inspect and supervise all proposed advertisements. There will be an official with a staff, and local authorities do not hesitate to have a staff of good size, because it is paid for by the ratepayers, who have little control over the engagements. This staff will consider every...
Major Abraham Lyons: My right hon. and gallant Friend has rightly called attention to a, matter which which I must deal, and I hope I have not given the impression that I was trying to keep back anything which might put a different complexion on the matter. But as I understand this Clause, while it is true that the local authority will have to submit to the Home Office and the Home Office will have to approve or...
Major Abraham Lyons: Would not that very protection be given by the Act that I have spoken about, the Advertisement Regulation Act of 1925?
Major Abraham Lyons: If, in the little time during which I propose to detain the House, I do not attempt to follow the hon. Gentleman who has just resumed his seat throughout the whole of his wanderings, and to answer one by one the misapprehensions under which he seems to labour I hope that he will forgive me. There are one or two matters in particular, upon which he thought fit to dwell and with which I should...
Major Abraham Lyons: I am much obliged to the hon. Member. I thought that I had not, perhaps, appreciated his remark quite correctly. The Bill to which he refers was not, however, a Bill limited to compulsory workmen's compensation insurance. The Workmen's Compensation Act is a very important Measure. A worker in this country is entitled to protection, and to the valuable benefits under the Act; but I have seen...
Major Abraham Lyons: Is it not the fact that in many cases this devaluation of the dollar has wiped out all tariff protection; and in these circumstances may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he will invite the Tariff Advisory Committee to give immediate consideration to the industries so adversely affected by these unexpected events?
Major Abraham Lyons: Arising out of the original answer, may I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman has received representations from the manufacturers of elastic web, who are suffering?
Major Abraham Lyons: 3. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs the number of occasions and dates upon which the tariff boards of Australia and Canada, respectively, have sat to consider applications from British industry for tariff alterations and the industries which have made application to be heard in pursuance of the Ottawa Agreements?
Major Abraham Lyons: While thanking the right hon. Gentleman for the information he has given me, may I ask if there is no cohesion at all between the tariff boards sitting in these two Dominions and the Dominions Office here; and whether it is a fact that the first application from any British industry was sent as far back as August, and that only one application has been heard, despite the time that has elapsed...
Major Abraham Lyons: To Canada.
Major Abraham Lyons: May I still ask whether it is a fact that the first British industry to go before the tariff board only sent in its application as recently as last August