NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 19 February 1925

19 FEBRUARY 1925

It is stated authoritatively that the King’s attack of bronchitis is pursuing a satisfactory course.

In the House of Lords it was stated that the number of telephones installed by the Post Office now averages about 1700 a month.

Sir John Gilmour, replying to questions in the House of Commons regarding the Clydebank evictions, said it was his desire and hope that moderate courses might be adopted on both sides until the Commission had completed its inquiries, and there had been reasonable opportunity of considering its report.

The second reading of the British Sugar Subsidy Bill was passed in the House of Commons. The Minister of Agriculture said the growing of beet was important from the point of view of employment and labour. Mr William Graham said his party would, in Committee, press for some form of Government control and ownership in this scheme.

Mr Preston, Unionist candidate for Walsall, has received a message from Mr Baldwin, in which he says that the menace of Socialism is ever present, and it is of paramount importance that Walsall should show at the election the continued firmness of the electorate that there shall be a long period of sound and constitutional government.

Sir L. Worthington Evans, Secretary for War, replying to a deputation on the question of the reconstruction of the Militia, undertook that the views presented to him would receive careful consideration.

The Food Commission heard evidence from several housewives, as well as on behalf of the Trade Union Congress. In the case of the latter, Sir Auckland Geddes expressed his disappointment at the small amount of help they had obtained from them.