NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 27 May 1925

27 MAY 1925

In the House of Lords the Poor Law Emergency Provisions Continuance (Scotland) Bill was read a second time.

The House of Commons discussed a Vote of £96,000,000 for the Ministry of Pensions. Complaints were heard against the administration of the Department and against the system of final awards, both of which, however, found supporters. Replying to the debate, the Minister of Pensions said that, like their predecessors in office, the Government intended to maintain the essential principles of the Warrant and the Pensions Act. They could not alter the present system of final awards.

The Queen celebrated her 58th birthday. A family luncheon was held at Buckingham Palace.

Impressive scenes were witnessed at the funeral service of the late Earl of Ypres at Westminster Abbey.

A critical position has arisen in Scotland over the erection of Weir steel houses.

Sir John Gilmour, Secretary for Scotland, opened the new sanatorium at East Fortune, Haddingtonshire. The sanatorium is the result of a combined effort by the seven south-eastern counties of Scotland.

Consideration of the Allotments Bill was completed by a Standing Committee of the House of Commons.

M. Caillaux, the French Minister of Finance, foreshadows heavy taxation for a number of years.

M. Berger, an official of the French Royalist organisation Action Française, was assassinated in Paris.