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Commons Chamber section
Commons Hansard for 30 July 1908 (Volume 193)
From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated
25 March 2018 at 4.01pm.
Commons Chamber
Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons
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Private Bill Business
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Message From The Lords
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Returns, Reports, Etc
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Local Taxation Returns (England)
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Prisons (Ireland)
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Strikes And Lock-Outs
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Board Of Trade (Labour Department) (Changes In Wages, Etc)
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Navigation And Shipping
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Railway Returns
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Statistical Abstract (United Kingdom)
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Railway Servants (Hours Of Labour)
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Railway And Canal Traffic Acts, 1888 And 1894
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Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 To 1906 (Dispensing Powers)
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Navy (Exceptions To King's Regulations)
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Fleets (Great Britain And Foreign Countries)
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Naval Expenditure (Principal Naval Powers)
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Naval Casualties
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Trade Reports (Annual Series)
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Board Of Education
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Metropolitan Police (Royal Commission)
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County Courts (Plaints And Sittings)
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Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Bill, 1908
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Paupers And Dependants (Scotland)
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Guaranteed 2¾ Per Cent Stock
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Civil Servants (Retirement At The Age Of Sixty-Five)
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Foreshores
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Paper Laid Upon The Table By The Clerk Of The House
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Merchant Shipping, 1907
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Iron And Steel, 1907
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Coal Tables, 1907
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Tea And Coffee, 1908
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Prosecution Of Offences Acts, 1879 And 1884
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Navy And Army (Inquiries)
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Scottish Local Authorities (Deputation Expenses)
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Questions And Answers Circulated With The Votes
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Irish Congestion Commission
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Crookenden And Casey Estates, Cavan
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Drumlinny Evicted Tenant
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Grant To Reinstated Tenant At Effernagh
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Port Of London Bill
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Patent Acts, 1907
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Spitalfields Market
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Council Of Judges—Annual Report
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Ely Estate Evicted Tenants
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Open Air Meeting Prosecutions
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Deaths From Anæsthetics
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Motor Ambulances
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Wheeled Litter Ambulances
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Ridenham Village Green
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Fishery Authorities
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Distemper In Dogs
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Old-Age Pension Regulations
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Volunteer Quartermaster-Sergeant
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War Office Uniform Contracts
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Woolwich Ammunition Stores
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Long Service Medals For Volunteer Officers
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Exchequer And Audit Department Staff
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Colonial Audit Branch
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Cost Of Birth Certificates
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Mohill Seed Loan
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Evicted Tenant On Lord Harlech's Estate
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Mong Evicted Tenant
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Croften Estate Evicted Tenant
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Portadown Orange Arch
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Caledon Petty Sessions Court
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Wexford Labourers' Cottage Scheme
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Irish Intermediate Education Inspectors
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Queen's County Evicted Tenants
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Lord Listowel's Estate
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Mr H Franks' North Kerry Estate
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Intermediate Education Rules
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Blacker Douglas Estate, North Kerry
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Deaths From Disease In India
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Madras Deputy Collector's Appeals
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State Of Jasdan
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Importation Of Spirits Into Nigeria
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Exchequer And Audit Department
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Jamaica Relief Fund
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Imports Of Continental Hops
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Hop Harvest In The United States
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Hop Acreage In England And America
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Consumptive Emigrants To Canada
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Scottish Crofters
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Price Of Beef In Chicago And New York
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Imports Of Foreign Hops
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Tarbert Pier, Loch Fyne
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Churches (Scotland) Commission
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Partial Exemption Scholars
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Police Day Of Rest
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English Industrial Schools
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English Bop Acreage
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Cattle Disease
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Unemployment In The Building Trade
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Greenwich Park Night Watchmen
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Strangers Lobby Mosaics
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Weir Hospital Grant
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Aberdeen Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
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Burning Of Bonar Bridge, Crofters' House
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Beer Brewing Statistics
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Old-Age Pensions And Workhouse Pensioners
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West Africa Nickel Coinage
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Inland Revenue Chemical Officers
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Captain Bryce Wilson
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Shoebury Fishery Rights
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Irish Territorial Force Officers And Jury Service
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Director Of Army Finance
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Printing Of Government Bills
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Rosyth
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Fisheries Investigation Report
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Customs Warehouses Stock-Taking
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Questions In The House
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Submarine Dangers
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Report On The Naval Manœuvres
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Royal Naval Reserve
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Trial Trips Of New Vessels
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Messrs G Corderoy & Co And The Admiralty
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Naval Discussions
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Naval Ordnance Department And Petitions From The Employees
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Overtime In Deptford Victualling Yard
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Deptford Victualling Yard Storehouse Staff
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Naval Courts Martial
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Contracts For Destroyers
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Naval Officers And The Press
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Progress In India
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Afforestation In India
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Indian Administrative Reforms
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Mr Tilak's Conviction
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St Lucia Property Tax Bill
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Dinizulu's Salary
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Transvaal Public Service
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British Indian Traders In The Transvaal
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White Labour On The Rand
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The Gilbert Islands
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Egyptian Schools And English Teachers
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Brigandage In Turkey
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German Arrest Of The Trawler "General''
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German Arrest Of The Trawler "Taurus"
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Imprisonment Of Mr Tchaikovsky In St Petersburg
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Persian Imports Of Arms—Proposed Russian Loan
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Colonel Liakhoff's Action In Teheran
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Increase In Lunacy
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Provincial Homes Investment Company
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Motor 'Bus Breakdowns
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Illicit Hawking Of Beer
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Metropolitan Police
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Arlesey Asylum Brewery
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International Securities Corporation, Limited
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Shunting Fatality At Leeds
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Fraudulent Building Societies
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Unemployment Statistics
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Unemployment In Manchester
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Distress At Erith
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Police Traps For Motorists
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Refusal Of A Charter To Eastbourne
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Oldham Postmen's Wages
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Putney Telephone Exchange
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Government Pensions
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Royal London Friendly Society
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Reorganisation Of The Customs
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Ballinorley (Sligo) Teacher's Residence
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Ballinorley National School
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The All-Red Route
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Small Landholders (Scotland) Bill
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Trawling In Prohibited Areas Prevention Bill
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Crofters' Commons Grazings Regulation Bill
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Local Government (Scotland) Bill
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Transfer Of Goods Bill
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Old-Age Pensions Bill
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Irish Universities Bill
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Whale Fisheries (Ireland) Bill
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Telegraph Construction Bill
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Bee Pest (Ireland) Bill
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Port Of London Bill
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Commons Bill Lords
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Business Of The House (Private Business)
(item number 20)
(id 9e18f530-dc6b-4aff-9289-f72cba53a38a)
House Of Commons (Kitchen And Refreshment Rooms)
(item number 21)
(id ab80fba7-b509-4aa9-bb5b-6738484bc7e0)
Consolidated Fund Appropriation) Bill
(item number 22)
(id ad861b1d-607f-4239-be20-96004e92fbe0)
London And District Electricity Supply Bill Lords (By Order)
(item number 23)
(id b20679ae-474b-43ff-a0eb-2e64fde66982)
Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill
(item number 24)
(id 13fd8911-1054-4456-ba32-d234b295409e)
East India Loans Railway And Irrigation Works, And General Purposes
(item number 25)
(id c3cb51e2-f46b-4fcd-99f1-f5b804a6fd46)
East India Loans Bill
(item number 26)
(id 40109ff7-4288-4f59-91f2-b1cd61285b65)
Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Bill Lords
(item number 27)
(id 34ca6615-9980-47d3-813b-17a0e58ba9a8)
Coroners (Ireland) Bill
(item number 28)
(id 77f6e355-d55f-49e9-bc35-24372c1eb532)
Endowed Schools (Masters) Bill Lords
(item number 29)
(id 94326518-8ec0-4de9-810b-dd67f4760f24)
Greenwich Hospital
(item number 30)
(id 023af632-4dda-4f5c-ba92-99846bfd40a4)
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