3 APRIL 1925
New schemes of emigration and Empire settlement were referred to in the House of Commons by the Under Secretary for the Colonies. The Home Government, he said, attached great importance to the emigration of juveniles under proper safeguards, and looked with favour on a proposal that British schoolboys should be allowed to visit Australia.
Speaking at Windsor, the Earl of Birkenhead said that the Labour party was not yet fit for the responsibility of government, and that it had most plainly demonstrated its unfitness during the months it was in power.
Speaking at Durham to the National Conservative League, whose activities he had gone to inspect, the Hon. F. S. Jackson, the Unionist organiser, said that the country was up against serious difficulties, but he was justified in feeling that if they faced the facts they would be able to recover their position and hold their own as in the past. He was not at all sure that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was not so full of ingenuity as to find something that would relieve the burden of taxation they were suffering from. They must not gamble on that; he did not know for a certainty.
Vice-Admiral Sir Walter H. Cowan, Bart., has been appointed Commanding Officer, Coast of Scotland, in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald T. Tyrwhitt. The appointment dates from 30th June 1925.
The death is announced of Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour.