12 MAY 1925
The Gold Standard Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords.
The Budget resolution imposing the silk Customs duties was carried in the House of Commons by 330 to 166, after Socialist amendments—first, for their postponement until December 1929, and second, for omission of the duty on artificial silk—had been rejected. The Finance Bill was introduced and read a first time.
Questioned in the House of Commons with regard to an American newspaper’s publication of a document purporting to have been written by him and giving official outlines of British policy in Europe, Mr Austen Chamberlain deprecated any official statement as to how far the document was correct or not. He added that no statement of British policy contradicting his declaration in the House on 24 March had any authority whatever.
The Government’s decision to institute an inquiry into systems of disinterested management of licensed premises, including State management at Carlisle and elsewhere, was made known in the House of Commons.
The King and Queen yesterday attended a matinee at the Adelphi Theatre, London, in aid of King George’s Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses.
The Prince of Wales took part in a springbok shoot school.
Mr Baldwin, in a message of sympathy to the Governor-General of New Zealand on the death of Mr Massey, recalled the late Premier’s whole-hearted care for the honour, safety, and well-being of the Empire.