NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 20 February 1925
20 FEBRUARY 1925
Yesterday’s bulletin regarding the King stated that progress, though slow, was satisfactory.
Progress was made with a number of measures in the House of Commons, including a Bill in respect of land purchase in Northern Ireland and the London Electricity Bill.
The Air Estimates for the coming financial year, amounting to £15,809,762, have been issued.
In the annual report on the British Army it is stated that, although the quality of the recruits has been maintained at a high standard, the physique of the youth of the nation has not yet recovered from the effects of war and post-war conditions; consequently during the year no fewer than 49,000 candidates for enlistment were rejected.
The Second Opium Conference at Geneva closed with the signing of an important Convention, which, in the view of M. Zahle, Denmark, the president, while not solving all the problems the Conference had to face, deals a blow at the drug evil.
Little progress was made at the Conference between the Council of the Mining Association and the full Executive of the Miners’ Federation. Mr Evan Williams emphasised the seriousness of the situation. Several Welsh collieries have shut down, and others are likely to follow.
At the Food Commission inquiry the evidence concerned the refusing of supplies of flour by millers to bakers who undercut the normal ruling price of bread.
Glasgow Town Council, despite the protests of the Socialist members, decided to confer the freedom of the city on Prince Henry on May 2.
