NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 2 July 1924

2 JULY 1924

The Public Health (Scotland) Amendment Bill, the object of which is to enable Public Health Authorities in Scotland to assist necessitous persons in obtaining insulin treatment for diabetes, and to provide medicines for sufferers from other diseases, was read a second time in the House of Commons.

An announcement that the report of the Departmental Committee on Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles, dealing with the existing system of motor taxation, will be soon available was made in the House of Commons by the Minister of Transport. The signatories of the main report, he said, had arrived at the conclusion that no method of administering the motor spirit duty could be contrived which would not inflict grave inconvenience, or which could be relied upon as a revenue yielder.

Interesting revelations of foreign policy are contained in a Blue book giving the history of the negotiations for an Anglo-French Pact.

Further efforts will be made to-day to avoid a lock-out in the building industry, and in the event of neither side being able to make a concession which would form the basis of joint negotiations, the Minister of Labour states that he will make a suggestion which might provide a way out of the deadlock. The suggestion is understood to mean the reference of the dispute to a Court of Inquiry.

At the World Power Conference at Wembley, the power resources of the British Empire and the United States were discussed.