Mercher, 24 Chwefror 1954
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Minister of Food what percentage of the Canadiantinned salmon to be issued on 21st March will be Group 1, Red Salmon; and how much will be Group 3, Pink Salmon.
Dodds: asked the Minister of Food what quantity of Russian salmonand crab meat was imported into this country in 1953 in exchange for the herrings sent to the Union of Soviet Socialist...
asked the Minister of Food (1) if he will explain the reasons why, in the four weeks ended 26th December last, there were 5,700,000 rations of cooking fat, 6,700,000 rations of margarine, and...
asked the Minister of Food (1) which members of the Milk Marketing Board will be responsible for watching the interests of distributors; (2) what arrangements are being made, When the Milk...
asked the Minister of Food through what organisation it is proposed that bacon pigs will be marketed after the de-rationing of bacon.
asked the Minister of Food whether he will take steps to establish a system of selling cattle by deadweight, as an alternative to the markets, to be introduced before the de-rationing of meat.
Mr. John Hall: asked the Minister of Food what evidence he has to show that British trawlers have been unable to meet the consumer demand for fish.
asked the Minister of Food whether he will give an assurance that no further Supplementary Estimates will be required to cover trading deficits during the current financial year.
asked the Minister of Food why the average weekly consumption of eggs fell from 17·77 million dozen in 1950 to 15·39 million dozen in 1953.
asked the Minister of Food if he will consider requiring manufacturers of margarine to indicate the vitamin content of the commodity sold to the retail purchaser; and whether he will take steps...
asked the Minister of Food the estimated cost of the storage of his Department's stocks of sugar during the year 1953–54.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many people in Kenya up to date have been arrested in connection with the disturbances there; how many have been screened and tried; how many...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it has now been decided that representatives of Kenya African coffee producers shall be invited to attend future official coffee conferences.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the present selling price of Kenya sisal; and what is the present rate of African wages on the sisal plantations.
Mrs. White: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the minimum age for recruitment to the Kenya Police Reserve.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will place in the Library of the House copies of all surrender leaflets designed to bring in suspected Mau Mau adherents, distributed in Kenya.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to the statements made by Mr. Peter Bostock, formerly engaged on policing duties in Kenya, details of which are...
Mr. Dugdale: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will consider making crimes of assault and battery in Kenya punishable by imprisonment without the option of a fine.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will place a copy of the Mau-Mau oaths in the Library.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds "The African and Colonial World," a monthly journal published in this country, has been banned in Kenya.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the subject of the talks which Mr. Dom Mintoff, the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Malta, has recently...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will make a further statement on the proposal that there should be a change in the constitutional relationship between the United Kingdom...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what contribution has been, or is to be, made by Her Majesty's Government towards the cost of repairing the damage caused by earthquake in Cyprus...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has a statement to make on the economic development of Cyprus.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has a statement to make on the relaxation of the laws affecting the liberty of the subject in Cyprus.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he has studied the further particulars sent to him by the hon. Member for Tradeston with regard to the petition for the creation of two further...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will appoint a commission of inquiry, under an independent chairman, to investigate the disturbances in the Southern Province of Nyasaland.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies for what reason the Seychelles Government intend to dispose of Government plantations in certain outlying islands, in view of the research work now...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will give an assurance that no racial discrimination is practised at the Fort George Hotel, Belize, British Honduras, which has been built by...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why he has instructed General Templer to examine prices charged by middlemen in Malaya with a view to reducing prices to the consumer; and when...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is aware of the industrial dispute among printing employees in Singapore and that Army personnel are being used to do the work of the men on...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the Report of the Malayan Elections Committee.
Mr. Fenner Brookway: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if, in view of the declarations by the heads of three other Provinces of Uganda supporting the Kabaka of Buganda, he will now...
Mrs. White: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why Mr. A. K. Kironde, counsel for Mr. Kiwanuka, was not permitted to interview his client in private when he made a request to do so at...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will now make a further statement regarding the additional cost arising from long storage of the 1952–53 crop of groundnuts in Nigeria.
Mrs. White: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what protests have been made by representative organisations in Nigeria against the proposed regionalisation of the judiciary and civil...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies for what reasons an allowance of £200 is granted to the Chief Clerk and Establishments Officer of the General Department of the Crown Agents for...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [Mr. Bnchan Hepburn.]
3.30 p.m.
I rise tonight to deal with a matter about which I have had some correspondence with the Colonial Secretary, and also to refer to a matter which has been the subject of a Parliamentary Question....
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