HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 11

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

I -—♦ — EMERGENCY ACTS PROLONGED. (UNITED ITtIiSS ASSOCIATION—-IVY ELECTRIC TET EGRAVII —COPYRIGHT-^ ("Received starch Bth, 5.3 p.in.) LONDON, March 8. A Bill was introduced prolonging tho life of the Gold Standard Amendment Act, which suspended the gold standard, and the Foodstuffs Prevention Exploitation Act. Both are emergency measures, which were passed in the autumn- of 1931, and were due t'o expire on March 21st and April 7th, respectively, if not renewed. Confiscated Tobacco. In the House of Comnions Major W. E. Elliott (Financial Secretary of the Treasury), told an enquirer that tobacco seized for contravention of the Customs Act, if smolceable, was supplied to inmates of the various asylums. If unsmokable it was sent to botanic gardens for fumigation purposes. riag on Carnarvon Castle. ]n tho Houso of Commons, the Post-master-General, tho Hon. W. G. Orins-by-Gore, in answer to a question, said tliat the decision to fly the lied Dragon flair 0 n qjio tower of Carnarvon Castle an 3 the Union Jack on the other was made in 1922 after consultation with !ilr Lloyd George, who then was Constable of the Castle and Prime Minister. This decision accorded with advice from tho Carnarvon Town Council, Beforo effecting the change he consulted with Mr Lloyd George and the Mayor of Carnarvon/ He recognised the strong Welsh sense of nationhood, but he would like to correct the misapprehension that the first Prince of Wales was born in the castle. Its foundations were not then laid. He was aware that Welsh students last week tore down the Union Jack, where it had flown with tho Red Dragon in accordance with custom. He was sure that public opinion in Wales and elsowher/3 would condemn that net-. The Government had decided to ignore the regrettable incident.