NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 10 February 1925

10 FEBRUARY 1925

Parliament resumes to-day. In the House of Lords the Archbishop of Canterbury is to put a question regarding the expulsion of the Ecumenical Patriarch. In the House of Commons the second reading stage of the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Bill will be taken.

Mr Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, speaking at Plymouth with reference to the housing problem, said that he was sorry to see that already some people, whose motives, he feared, were not above suspicion, were taking upon themselves to crab the demonstration houses, which some of them certainly had not yet even seen.

Steel-sheeted houses are strongly criticised by a technical committee appointed by the National Housing and Town Planning Council.

Mr Lloyd George, in receiving the freedom of Hull, spoke on the part the politician played in the Great War.

Mr A. J. Cook, Secretary of the Miners’ Federation, in an interview regarding Mr Hodges’s proposals for solving the problems in the mining industry, said nationalisation would be more likely to appeal to the coal owners than unification.