Sir Basil Peto: 49. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the vital importance of the subject to masters and officers of the mercantile marine, he will add a member representing the officers' organisations to the committee which is to investigate and report on steering gear in British ships in connection with the inquiry into the loss of the steamship "Blairgowrie" and steamship "Usworth"?
Sir Basil Peto: Can my right hon. Friend say why the practice has become quite common now, when any Committee of this kind is appointed, to put somebody on to represent the workmen's organisations, and why the organisations representing the masters and officers of the merchant service, who are responsible for the safety of these ships, should be constantly neglected in this way?
Sir Basil Peto: 15. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will consider making an order prohibiting the entry at British ports of cattle from Ireland, during the months of February to June, which carry the characteristic lumps of the warble fly maggot, in conjunction with regulations for compulsory dressing of all cattle during these months for warble fly in this country?
Sir Basil Peto: May I take it that the right hon. Gentleman will consider the possible effect of negotiations on the lines indicated in my question in view of his determination to get the warble fly disease cleared out of this country?
Sir Basil Peto: Will my right hon. Friend consider imposing, at the port of entry the prohibition of entry, during the months February to June, of all cattle which bear the characteristic lump of warble-fly maggots upon them?
Sir Basil Peto: I am afraid I cannot regard this subsidy which we are asked to grant till the 30th September with quite the same complacency as my hon. Friend the Member for Leominster (Sir E. Shepperson), who said he was satisfied that the Government should be commended for proposing this subsidy, because he was positive now that their long-term policy was definitely settled and had been accepted by the...
Sir Basil Peto: The farmer whom the hon. Member quoted obviously was not in favour of the agricultural policy of the Government. The hon. Member quoted a set of figures for the 13 years before the War, but he did not quote the figures for the same farm for any post-war period. The figures he did quote related to a wholly different farm that had nothing to do with cattle at all. I think he said it was an...
Sir Basil Peto: I beg to move. "That the Clause be read a Second time." If this new Clause appears to be somewhat long and somewhat complex it only shares what is common to all Clauses dealing with this very difficult question of Income Tax. Perhaps it would be convenient if I analysed the Clause so as to show of what it is composed. It is divisible into five parts. The first is contained in the first two...
Sir Basil Peto: In view of the very full explanation which has been given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Clause.
Sir Basil Peto: I should be glad to know the Parliamentary Secretary's answer to the point which was put by two hon. Members who addressed the Committee before he rose, namely, that if you leave this Clause as it is the major effect will be to raise the duty on foreign rice milled in this country to the equivalent of 2d. a lb., whereas the ground rice, if it is milled abroad, will come into this country and...
Sir Basil Peto: 55. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the fact that the German Government are now giving a subsidy of 20 per cent. On fabric gloves exported from Germany to this country; and whether, seeing that this has practically neutralised the import duty on fabric gloves and put large numbers of fabric glove workers out of employment, he intends to take...
Sir Basil Peto: Will the hon. Gentle man see that inquiries are made through the usual diplomatic channels, and, if it is ascertained that such a, subsidy as is mentioned in the question is, in fact, being granted, will he deal with it in any negotiations with the German Government for a, trade agreement?
Sir Basil Peto: Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us whether the guarantee that he mentions will make any capital raised for these schemes a trustee investment
Sir Basil Peto: The hon. Gentleman is quoting my right hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill), and as my right hon. Friend is not present he should, in justice to him, say that what my right hon. Friend said was that in consequence of the vast improvements due to British rule in India it has been followed by an increase in population of no less than 100,000,000, and that therefore there has been...
Sir Basil Peto: On a point of Order. May I have, the opportunity of moving the Amendment to the proposed Amendment standing in my name before the right hon. Gentleman addresses the House?
Sir Basil Peto: I beg to move, as an Amendment to the proposed Amendment, in line 3, to leave out: unless the context of the reference otherwise requires. The right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) has covered the whole ground in words infinitely happier and more humorous than any I can use, but there are some serious aspects, and one is that as the Under-Secretary said that he was going to consider...
Sir Basil Peto: The hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Isaac Foot) seemed to think that we are bound by virtue of a pledge given to the Burmans—that if they decided not to come into the Federation, they would not have a form of government inferior to that which they would have had on entering the Federation. We are bound to see that the Burmans have as good a government if they do not enter the Federation as if...
Sir Basil Peto: I should like to ask one question. Some of my hon. Friends attach considerable importance to the retention of the Sub-section, but I should like to ask whether there is any precedent for the repeal of an Act and the maintenance and enforcement of its Preamble? In the second place, I want to know whether the hon. Member for Limehouse (Mr. Attlee) was right when he said that the intention of...
Sir Basil Peto: I think that we ought to have a little more explanation of this Amendment, in view of the great importance of this Schedule to the States, because the words in the Bill would appear to be more comprehensive than the words which it is proposed to put in. I would like to hear a few words of explanation as to what is the motive of the Government and the reason why they have found out that the...
Sir Basil Peto: The Under-Secretary not long ago moved an Amendment to correct a printing error. May I point out that this Amendment ought to refer to lines 33 to 35, because otherwise we shall be leaving out words which we do not intend to leave out? I think there is a mistake.
