NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 11 July 1924
11 JULY 1924
On the report stage of the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Bill in the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor stated that since the Committee stage further negotiations had taken place, and an agreement had been reached safeguarding the interests of the small heritors. The agreement was embodied in an amendment providing for redemption upon easy terms. With the adoption of the amendment and a number of others, all drafting amendments, the report stage was concluded.
Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, made a statement in the House of Commons on his visit to Paris.
The Prime Minister made a firm declaration of policy in the House of Commons with regard to the Sudan, and referred to the forthcoming discussions with Zaghlul Pasha.
Mr Snowden, speaking in London, expressed the hope that in the next effort to bring about peace and settlement to the Continent of Europe the right spirit would be brought into the deliberations. There must be a frank recognition of the reasons why previous attempts had failed.
The Government were defeated in Standing Committee A” on the Agricultural Wages Bill, when what was declared to be a vital amendment was carried by twenty-seven votes to seventeen.
In the Lewes by-election, Captain T. Beamish, Unionist candidate, was returned by a majority of 3172 over the Socialist nominee. The Liberal candidate was at the foot of the poll.
THE Standing Committee on Scottish Bills had before them the Public Health (Scotland) Bill, the main object of which is to enable public health authorities to assist necessitous sufferers from diabetes to obtain insulin treatment.
