Major Goronwy Owen: Is my right hon. Friend aware that teachers of low category are being retained in the Services and sent to the Far East? Would it not be better to retain them in this country so that they can get on with the work of education?
Major Goronwy Owen: Will the Minister now be able to give the figures for separate war agricultural committees?
Major Goronwy Owen: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is now able to state the Government's proposals regarding double summer time.
Major Goronwy Owen: Does my right hon. Friend appreciate that the country generally, and particularly the agricultural constituencies, will accept this decision of the Government with a great deal of gratitude, and that it will help very largely to conserve the food supplies of this country?
Major Goronwy Owen: asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that the Welsh nation is a distinct nation and, in proportion to its numbers, has contributed as much as the three other constituent nations to the greatness and security of the United Kingdom, he will arrange that armorial emblems for Wales shall be included in the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom; that the daffodil shall be sanctioned as...
Major Goronwy Owen: Does not the right hon. Gentleman think that it would be a very graceful gesture on the part of the Government on the eve of St. David's Day to grant this privilege to the Welsh nation, which has played its part so nobly during this war and during every war, and has always shown its loyalty to the Crown and to the Government of this country?
Major Goronwy Owen: Like those who have already addressed the House, I welcome this opportunity of taking part in a Welsh Debate. As my hon. Friend the Member for Anglesey (Miss Lloyd George) said, we have been sending Members to this House for the period of 400 years; we have contributed, during those centuries, many leading figures to the life of this country as a whole, yet we have had to wait until to-day...
Major Goronwy Owen: With regard to the interim period of change from milk production to some other form of production, how long does the right hon. Gentleman contemplate that Government control will continue?
Major Goronwy Owen: Will it be possible for the people who are now running the factories to start new industries which they desire to carry on and will they have priority of materials and machinery for that purpose?
Major Goronwy Owen: The same considerations apply to the site at Carnarvon. Butlins Limited sold the land for a nominal sum to the Admiralty and were commissioned to rebuild the camp and repurchase it at a fixed price.
Major Goronwy Owen: There is just one point I should like to make. Is it the policy of the Government to try to persuade people who are now working Government factories in certain areas, to shift their factories after the war to congested areas like South Wales?
Major Goronwy Owen: The Minister mentioned that this was the fifth Bill of this kind that had been introduced during the war. That is a very good sign that this House and the country generally are taking a far greater interest in agriculture than has been the case for a very long time. I hope that these small Bills are an earnest that the Government will in future, after the war, devote far more attention to...
Major Goronwy Owen: I admit that the service to which my hon. Friend now refers is a friendly and intimate service, but that is due to the fact that the county war agricultural executive committees are made up of local farmers who are friends of the farmers, and that the specialists who have been employed by the committees are the very men who were employed by the university colleges before.
Major Goronwy Owen: Will the 3½ per cent. include anything for redemption?
Major Goronwy Owen: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works whether he is aware that, in spite of repeated promises, his Ministry has failed to ensure the supply of materials for the erection of houses for agricultural workers and that, in consequence, the Lleyn Rural District Council are unable to complete their quota of houses; and will he take immediate steps to see that the necessary...
Major Goronwy Owen: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will give in assurance that industrialists, who are now engaged in the production of war equipment in factories owned by the Government but situated outside the four scheduled priority areas; will be given opportunities for acquiring these factories and, after the cessation of hostilities, for obtaining equipment and raw materials to enable...
Major Goronwy Owen: Is the Minister aware that officials of his Department are already sending out letters saying that they will be unable to guarantee any raw materials, or plant, or machinery for the establish- ment of new industries outside the four scheduled areas?
Major Goronwy Owen: Is it not a fact that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman's Department cannot guarantee that factories, which are now being employed for war purposes, will get plant, machinery and raw materials for a period of four or five years after the war?
Major Goronwy Owen: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in pursuance of the Government post-war policy for the location of industry, it is proposed to limit the establishment of new industries to the four areas which have already been scheduled for priority consideration.
Major Goronwy Owen: The Minister has used the phrase "x money." What is preventing us being told the amount? Is there any reason whatever why the hon. and gallant Gentleman should not say that Butlins transferred this land to the Admiralty for a sum of, say, £I, and is it not a fact that, compared with other contractors at that particular time, Messrs. Butlin put up this camp at half the cost that the ordinary...
