NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 3 July 1924
3 JULY 1924
The building trades employers have decided to postpone posting lock-out notices for a week, pending the proposed Court of Inquiry.
The Cabinet, acting on the advice of the Committee of Imperial Defence, have decided against the Channel Tunnel scheme.
The Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Bill, the object of which is to give statutory authority to arrangements which have been made for altering the constitution of certain public offices in Scotland, passed second reading in the House of Lords.
The Committee stage of the Finance Bill was continued in the House of Commons, with discussion chiefly on clauses relating to Income Tax.
General Hertzog, the new South African Premier, in a speech at Pretoria, said that Great Britain should and always would be, as far as he and his Government were concerned, their first and chief friend. They were in the midst of an industrial epoch in their history. To develop their industries would be in consonance with the motto, “South Africa First.”
A special correspondent at Ottawa, in an article on Canada and the Lausanne Treaty, refers to the demands of the Dominions for a fuller share of control of foreign policy, and to the suggestion of Mr Ramsay MacDonald that the whole question should be investigated by a Royal Commission. Our correspondent says that the development of the British Prime Minister’s detailed views will be awaited with great interest in Canada.
