NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 16 March 1923

16 MARCH 1923

Rupert Sackville Gwynne was appointed as the new Financial Secretary to the War Office.

The Criminal Justice Bill passed the report stage in the House of Lords.

At a conference in London, local authorities accepted a Government offer of £6 per house to assist them in building homes for “the working class”.

A new Cabinet was formed in Egypt.