BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1925, Page 1

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION THE TABI EE OfIISIIOXLONDON. Man h I. In llio House of Commons, Air Ormesby Cl ore (Under-Secretary for the Colonies) said the colonies and the protetcoral.es would ho represented on the Imperial Economic Committee hy Sir 1.1. Pringle of the Colonial Oilice, with a second represenialive specially chosen liy a panel, the memhers of which would he named hy various bodies in .Britain connected with the business and interests of the colonies and protectorates. LONDON, March 4. .Memhers of the House of Commons light their cigars with foreign matches, eat foreign meat, and write their letters under foreign electric globes. These facts came out in the debate on the Estimates. The Home I'nder-Ser-retary (.Mr Locker Eampson) sail! the present contract for matches at Westminister ended on .March 31st. and he would consider insisting that only Empire goods he used throughout the Departments. .Mr Hardy (a Clydeside Socialist) complained that foreign meat, butter and sugar were supplied in the dining room. Mr Saklatvaia (the Communist) derisive lv pointed out that the electric light globes in the writing room were marked “Made in Ucnnany,” and “.Made in Bohemia.” LONDON, March 5. In. the House, of Commons, it was officially stated that since the war. Army meat supplies have been practically' all frozen meat, bought from the. Dominions mainly, and exclusively from them latterly. LONDON. March 4. The attitude on customs tariffs of the British Labour I’arty is embodied in a unanimous resolution passed by the Party rc-affirining that it is opposed to all tariffs and appointing a committee to suggest methods for dealing with the exchange of goods made under sweated conditions by means other than tarifis.