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Commons Hansard for 16 March 1909 (Volume 2)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 5 February 2026 at 10.10am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 4479b2b2-0cde-48a8-a9c9-b9e56ac69554)
Private Business (item number 2) (id 13d64568-dccd-428a-a8b1-7c21217686e8)
County Court Procedure (item number 3) (id 646475a8-62e5-4738-b9ef-4c659833ab26)

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Ships for Foreign Trade (item number 1) (id 12f20edb-b52d-4448-85ec-8a9eb558c1c8)
Most-Favoured-Nation Clause (item number 1) (id 6aa4fef2-6073-44b0-9cdb-f6b465ebd54c)
San Thomé and Principé (Slavery) (item number 1) (id c29ea6eb-b7b6-4e9c-bb4e-cf39afd4c040)
Deportation of British Subjects (India) (item number 1) (id d8d77fda-a8f1-413b-9c9a-8eafdae2dda8)
Contractors in Crown Colonies (item number 1) (id e228673a-ea9d-4090-ae5c-43f384bff45b)
British Immigrants at Toronto (item number 1) (id 3f84dae1-fcbe-477a-afe8-f0b2ee9ee8d4)
Northern Nigeria (Committee on Land Tenure) (item number 1) (id 2b90733c-bdfd-41a7-9d04-b246b79cb21a)
Transvaal Indigency Commission (Report) (item number 1) (id 73d61668-1126-4d15-8fa8-3d843ba2601a)
Encroachment of Sea at Kilnsea (item number 1) (id 0ded7bc5-fd5a-464c-8706-38d3f19094a9)
Court of Session Business (item number 1) (id 2cbfbb6e-0f1d-4282-af56-2cd50311fdeb)
Navy (Supply of Bacon) (item number 1) (id dca943a6-1180-4803-8d3b-bc3e929ac387)
United States Customs Tariffs (item number 1) (id 4dd9128e-be66-46b0-8c11-e5b23bc318db)
Birkenhead Docks Accident (item number 1) (id 32e2953d-91df-4103-8be5-5cb092926eba)
French Tariff (Retaliation) (item number 1) (id 515a0ff7-1db5-4a06-9c87-82153f72efc3)
House-Purchase Investments (item number 1) (id c54b0b11-1e4d-46e1-8a0b-7a48be48a805)
North Uist Fishermen's Losses (item number 1) (id 859ce93b-0a4a-4612-9fe0-3b140bc8b9ae)
Navy (Cost of Raising Grog Allowance) (item number 1) (id 08fed553-7fb8-4f46-b32b-9b4a72e36cc5)
Navy (Marking Grog Drinkers) (item number 1) (id 566d53bd-27e3-45da-9fa9-947b418b20c9)
Admiralty Work at Greenock (Measurers) (item number 1) (id cd882f19-1d9b-49fc-9481-675890f3aaf7)
Navy (Rum Eations) (item number 1) (id e3f93c93-10b9-43b5-8a55-16c96292145b)
Navy Estimates, 1906–7–8–9 (item number 1) (id 4f157802-86b8-4c4a-a281-4d5b08425bf7)
Small Holdings (Huntingdonshire) (item number 1) (id 96713a30-9826-49ce-ba0e-c9bd7098838c)
Post Office (Early Duties) (item number 1) (id 9523a8c8-b3bd-41df-9db1-fc6df94762f4)
Amalgamation of Postal Departments (Hours of Staff) (item number 1) (id 8416a6f2-bcb0-4452-956e-2ab918a0bdd1)
Post Office and Indian Letters (item number 1) (id 52247ee9-ee11-40ab-9cf5-a28ac709907d)
National Telephone Company's Servants (item number 1) (id d0b1cfa6-a228-4f97-a933-b1ed6581364e)
Amalgamation of Customs and Excise (item number 1) (id 0e296ea6-27f9-4dac-8199-cfffd477f26c)
National Benefit Trust (item number 1) (id c85001fc-599d-47d4-b1a8-4dbfd4833834)
Unsound Meat (item number 1) (id ddbeb1eb-5fa2-4fd5-a38f-ebef2cd7268a)
Lymington Borough Area (Rates for Services Not Supplied) (item number 1) (id 52b0c531-7cd4-4405-a660-2d09dbfbe454)
Territorial Forces. (Qualification of Deputy-Lieutenants) (item number 1) (id 0c08de4f-d692-44a5-b9ff-a527ec25129c)
Upper Merthyr Tydvil (Registration District) (item number 1) (id 9064012e-4a5f-4022-8af8-6a482fa1824d)
Old Age Pension Disqualification (Mrs. Eales, Bradford) (item number 1) (id 9280c3a9-84b7-4f79-91ec-0f9742b60633)
Mail Bag Canvas (item number 1) (id 2d0689c6-23ed-439f-8f42-22e3271d3291)
Shirt Makers (item number 1) (id e26e8ffd-bee3-4f1e-a609-b6deecfcbf42)
Welsh Church Commission (item number 1) (id 83a57b79-dd66-41a4-ab11-4cad61fac7cb)
Motor Car Prosecutions (Police Evidence) (item number 1) (id 15772ec9-b3a5-45f5-a84f-5d56789d024a)
Income Tax (Schedule B) (item number 1) (id 3866c25b-ec8c-4c6e-9778-f95111414134)
Old Age Pension (Mr. J. Heaney, Enniskillen) (item number 1) (id fb6c0eb2-5dd1-41f9-b354-7e396a8dab2c)
Vaccination Prosecution (Mr. P. Irvine) (item number 1) (id 261540ea-b4b8-489c-8276-fdb0109a5bd4)
Pension Committees (Census Office) (item number 1) (id ee9e4638-fd95-4f7d-b079-6e29e456c4a0)
Kilmurry School House (Applications for Grant) (item number 1) (id c9fea8cc-995e-4cac-a13f-2e58afba12ef)
Public Education (Ireland) (item number 1) (id 648741c5-5ec7-4503-9503-dbc51378a506)
War Department (Pensions for Writers) (item number 1) (id acf06bb5-8bd0-44ef-9956-fe096a781b80)
New Howitzer (item number 1) (id 5b50c935-c022-48db-ab4f-7cc2240439bf)
Ex-Soldiers and Reservists (item number 1) (id 1e0cf9bf-b397-4e0a-932d-de696dc3cfa7)
Territorial Recruits (Sunday Training) (item number 1) (id eac0ae8e-998a-4e82-a69e-e5eb6b8eb2c0)
Territorial Forces (Clothing Contracts) (item number 1) (id d47c2a64-51d6-4209-94b7-78a339483c7a)
Fort Matilda (Housing of Workers) (item number 1) (id b55761b8-50ae-4337-baf3-d2f057a4bcf4)
Garrisons in Time of War (item number 1) (id 21a90fa7-7f13-474b-977b-8819f39b7678)
Territorial Army and Civil Power (item number 1) (id b382e58d-fcab-4827-9cad-d623f30a881b)
Battleship Construction (Ministers' Powers) (item number 1) (id 3bb215d9-2c6a-4cf0-9511-200bf4ed1d18)
Strangers' Galleries (Admission of Ladies) (item number 1) (id 3130ac65-0741-455a-9a51-dec6ce61f174)
Notices of Motion (item number 1) (id c26b6157-80a5-4c71-a1bb-7d4b448b463b)
Presentation of Bills (item number 5) (id 405aff34-d0ec-460a-ac86-bdfe4e641efd)
Daylight Saving Bill (Select Committee) (item number 6) (id 2819254c-0ddd-415d-b6b2-9ac754c7de9b)
Private Business (item number 7) (id 3dc39ddd-7be1-4269-a4a0-5d5bc2b7cfb7)
Moral Instruction in Elementary Schools (item number 8) (id a3f298e0-a994-4390-884b-e5d267616ed0)
Oaths Bill (item number 9) (id 3dcbe547-03d3-4972-afca-16a7659ba33e)
Supply (item number 10) (id 8e1b5b42-068c-42e3-9faf-01e8bdbd541c)

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Midland Railway (Excursion Traffic Alterations) (item number 1) (id dee5287f-d874-4ba1-9485-730d96de98f4)
Income Tax (Schedule B) (item number 1) (id 72ec8235-c82d-4cf1-a90c-f439410d2dc3)
Territorial Force (Glasgow Corporation) (item number 1) (id f998b226-4faa-4ee0-a326-0426f4faab9f)
Treasury Over-Issues, 1907–8 (item number 1) (id d08786db-7472-41a6-99fd-2d442f0f0d99)
Navy (Medical Branch) (item number 1) (id ed9e3285-a582-45f0-9d7d-76de2e9583b6)
H.M.S. "Amethyst." (item number 1) (id 61eb3b52-caba-4aff-a09a-661cd963b300)
Irish Savings Bank Accounts (item number 1) (id aeac076d-3a34-4be3-8d08-49d9458a85c9)
Auxiliary Postman Kirwan (Foxrock, County Dublin) (item number 1) (id 9c463335-985e-4dfd-aa0f-10b7f3a68950)
National Telephone Company (Construction of Plant) (item number 1) (id 0036db51-fe9d-4fdc-8ac5-50f47daca2f8)
Post Office (Stores and Factories Departments) (item number 1) (id 45cd8611-d897-406a-8245-dfb2886bd286)
Post Office Telephone Service (Call Accounts) (item number 1) (id dbdeb754-6b4d-4bb9-a1c1-c632a92ab1ca)
Importation of Diseased Meat (Port of London) (item number 1) (id 4cf47c1f-8ead-45f3-ba7a-a7d8755355f3)
Repair of Main Roads (England and Wales) (item number 1) (id 17e88a83-651c-47e7-93f4-e9d94b31f53d)
Importation of Bacon as "Furniture." (item number 1) (id 173f6c58-4cb9-45b3-bb24-31b3ca2cba2b)
North Tipperary Assizes (Charge of Conspiracy) (item number 1) (id 8453455d-3d19-4d24-af7e-5b9cbe10a9a2)
Civil Service Clerks (Second Division) (item number 1) (id 1b18fbb0-0b6e-4f7c-b919-442ef0190944)
Queen's College, Galway (item number 1) (id 54b936bb-a6b9-471e-96e4-01d139961e28)
Fishery Board (Scotland) (item number 1) (id d251cac3-e17e-4c08-b8a8-9af48a79aee2)
Island of Lewis (item number 1) (id 41620a1c-7d55-44f9-a642-72b82bab730c)
Congested Districts Board (Scotland) (item number 1) (id 98fb03e3-1816-43c9-9a5c-25dac4b1cc72)

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