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Commons Hansard for 22 March 1909 (Volume 2)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 5 February 2026 at 10.11am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 3445ab0d-5947-4d7f-8996-844eced79c20)
Private Business (item number 2) (id 5bc15b28-73c4-455f-96c5-0733a8704c99)
Divorce Bills (item number 3) (id 36327d03-81aa-4fb5-bb2d-60b328981b35)
New Writ (item number 4) (id ca64c9b2-a758-4da5-b779-30706da6cd9f)

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Horses for the Army (item number 1) (id 622e347f-6cfe-4589-8c08-2b81015afe21)
Army Pensioners (item number 1) (id d8b72dcd-5f20-4a13-9960-f30054c2d774)
Cavalry Sword (New Pattern) (item number 1) (id 68ec2894-1dc4-4fc5-97b3-8f7c87486dc7)
Home Defence (item number 1) (id a7cc9a8b-a574-4985-81ad-fb637fcf2513)
Military Barracks (Wexford) (item number 1) (id 4a90e1f2-8ebf-478d-bac4-2825117e0561)
Mobilisation Regulations (item number 1) (id f5bcd699-d42d-4430-aab9-6cee5555d761)
Reserve Service (item number 1) (id aefb8f94-b5f9-4743-a4fd-ea869f9e44fb)
Preference to Goods (Crown Colonies) (item number 1) (id 88b1e284-3a13-43c3-8008-299ea32fb39e)
Australia and Great Britain (Cable Communication) (item number 1) (id 316773ce-8d22-4c1f-a59a-22a7ff3f95e9)
Fighting in Nigeria (item number 1) (id 28e16938-627b-4d01-913c-bba6f0e79a78)
China and Japan (Manchurian Railway) (item number 1) (id ed8e78c4-c6a4-47da-a4a4-6e4aa27bd60a)
Steam Trawling (Three-Mile Limit) (item number 1) (id 8898aad9-2843-411a-88a8-dc10dde7c526)
Dairy Produce (Dishonest Practices) (item number 1) (id 1030d3e5-afd6-4e54-8315-f0f34842a460)
Horse Breeding (item number 1) (id 47f735f8-d829-41e2-b110-2cec16ab6c45)
Shangford Bar Buoy (item number 1) (id 7eb92914-07c3-457f-9aac-6d2945cd216c)
Notice of Accidents Act (Birkenhead Dock Disaster) (item number 1) (id 7a49866f-2ae9-4b28-b492-7ed4eb2dc743)
Automatic Couplings (Trials in Italy) (item number 1) (id 2bfb503f-112f-492c-87de-06bf05164e20)
White Lead Imported (item number 1) (id 9f4abb70-62ce-4d04-a0d9-82c458e8e9c2)
Rosyth Contract (Foreign Materials) (item number 1) (id 923cb66d-f66e-4475-bd86-139189b009fc)
German "Dreadnoughts" and "Invincibles." (item number 1) (id f1a28592-def2-4164-a7dd-159f6b393d95)
Navy (Length of Service) (item number 1) (id f9c5bdd4-f7b9-4f3c-9074-60f7bc7feb40)
Coastguard Service (Fife Coast) (item number 1) (id 53c19b85-fbae-416b-bddf-e6989812464b)
British and German Naval Programmes (item number 1) (id 0623b28f-7771-45ea-b1c8-69764b2b25af)
Torpedo Destroyers (item number 1) (id 769a7bc2-5847-4a6d-94dc-f184704f3437)
Messrs. Krupp (Extension of Workshops) (item number 1) (id adc76a36-cb98-4cf9-9ec4-b20d5d69d554)
Brazilian " Dreadnoughts " (Suggested Purchase) (item number 1) (id 01cedcfb-8d69-4e0c-ab1a-244f22eeb864)
German Official Statements (item number 1) (id 2be970c1-92f5-4b3c-a295-bea6cdc207c2)
Scottish Sheriffs (Age of Retirement) (item number 1) (id c449f092-862b-4c70-ad6f-f6a8990824c2)
Shorthand Notes in Sheriff's Courts (item number 1) (id 973d85e9-e7ec-4938-bf05-2faadd8555c9)
Mail Contracts (Aden and Zanzibar) (item number 1) (id 27e14264-2d2a-4491-a6ef-ba276b730ff2)
Telegraphic Communication (Orkney and Shetland) (item number 1) (id 4c72a6d2-96b5-465f-8c8c-c65cad038f91)
Franking Correspondence (item number 1) (id 6d006954-506a-4b16-9651-01fc18e2bbea)
Poor Law Officers (Superannuation) (item number 1) (id 99285151-aa2e-42ab-9847-32399c24dd96)
Naval Expenditure (Germany and Great Britain) (item number 1) (id 588cd737-dfcd-4e12-96c4-bf88fdf09620)
Absence of the King (item number 1) (id 5aa7137a-5fbb-4389-bceb-571b53a68446)
Unemployed Workmen Act (Grants) (item number 1) (id 82ff4063-ce22-47b7-9135-31c45cf09b91)
Old Age Pensions (Disqualification) (item number 1) (id 34c7c018-8ee0-4666-bfe1-e84e3ae3382b)
Illegal Trawling (North-West Coast of Scotland) (item number 1) (id ba1c0380-15fc-4c0a-925b-8826e8d63c81)
Loans for Fishermen (item number 1) (id d2284509-5150-464f-aeeb-b2a7a0169f57)
Small Holders (Dalbeg) (item number 1) (id 261e4164-6f33-4e9c-87ea-3a5806adbf6c)
Court of Session (item number 1) (id da5e90ac-e50d-4227-9a0a-12a7d8927614)
Chemical Preservatives (item number 1) (id 82f5b475-f07f-41c1-b977-8f2e56b2b4de)
Distress in Manchester and London (item number 1) (id 0cf2fdfa-41c3-438b-a6c0-dacc60a40ccf)
Old Age Pension Disqualifications (item number 1) (id 65c38c2d-63f7-4aec-9c60-2fe11e8605bc)
Prosecution of Motorists (item number 1) (id 3af6b737-60de-43d2-b424-d63e4f6c1e91)
Purchase of Striped Canvas (item number 1) (id 3a013705-e3c3-4e8f-a92e-64216a1be20f)
Dividing Jury Lists (item number 1) (id a73268da-fbb1-4ef6-99d5-7052b8c341b3)
Press Attacks on Germany (item number 1) (id 1b868e0c-cf35-4494-88e7-c0830d3b9e9c)
Over-crowding Schools (item number 1) (id 4eb8226d-189d-4f76-a634-50ce3f05dd6d)
Teachers' Registration Council (item number 1) (id 234155be-67fb-43c7-807c-e27fb58a91ae)
Training for Secondary Teachers (item number 1) (id b2699a49-6b29-4323-bd25-8c87d553ec89)
Excavation at Hampton Court (item number 1) (id 0efffd5f-7797-4a30-a8a5-75ca3b4234a3)
Sedition in India (item number 1) (id 9ad12768-709c-432f-9395-90e190b03ece)
Trans-Indian Telegraph Line (item number 1) (id a789dc38-b88f-4446-9f15-f0de3d0043e0)
Estates Commissioners (Voluntary Sale) (item number 1) (id 9bbd6a2f-a36d-47ec-94d0-88c658c8b64f)
Mr. A. J. Crichton's Estate (Roscommon) (item number 1) (id 2efa3629-0fb8-418d-b670-4578dab2047b)
Extra Police (Roscommon) (item number 1) (id 77d56717-093f-4257-898b-e43d80a6dd11)
Teaching of Irish (Kildare) (item number 1) (id 80a68909-ba2b-4dfd-8624-7399895de5de)
Estates Commissioners (Hickey's Farm, Dundrum) (item number 1) (id ad45c0be-b860-47fc-8e63-0aa4c573bea7)
Estates Commissioners (Mr. Joly's Case, King's County) (item number 1) (id 97571d77-8f6f-4d18-8903-7daf650c4f68)
Land Purchase Agreements (item number 1) (id 7cc155ad-ad75-4994-8260-e54e9b1d351d)
Loans to Tenants (Ireland) (item number 1) (id 553a12ee-7399-4e3c-ac78-cb362df942e5)
Issue of Demand Notes (Income Tax) (item number 1) (id d3b07f63-013b-4e3a-bb3e-5e88a3839ec8)
Government Securities (Foreign Investors) (item number 1) (id d5f6cdcd-5c1b-4c30-a154-b9d7ae215aef)
Naval Policy-Vote of Censure (item number 6) (id 41082bfc-ea34-4ef8-8d12-c3436e140c70)
Presentation of Bills (item number 7) (id 49ccdaac-0e04-465b-966d-9ae6db075054)
Business of the House (item number 8) (id cefbfe45-1ae5-4241-ab17-31ee41db401d)
Supply (item number 9) (id 689521a7-dd25-4520-89cd-5cf74988a349)
Supply (item number 10) (id 6426a11f-1551-4640-9f6b-0fb0494e7f3c)
Coastguard and Royal Marines (item number 11) (id 34e118a1-0ec9-4ea5-9240-08ed3b7b2bbd)
Ways and Means (item number 12) (id a2570b00-8895-4671-a983-9947439bd24e)

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Admiralty Staff (Naval Assistant) (item number 1) (id 8a43650f-3e4a-4f5e-a345-7d5038f7c8d1)
Sentences on Suffragettes (item number 1) (id cca21db0-389a-411e-9e95-5d5bf65d42b1)
Small Holdings Purchased by County Councils (item number 1) (id 807909dd-1a71-40a9-8290-e3f104054fcc)
Post Office (Salaried Sub-Offices) (item number 1) (id e81e3609-a73a-42c5-8bd0-20a23d7f23bc)
Post Office (Southern Ireland Engineering District) (item number 1) (id 34ae2dce-644b-4e60-b1f7-b181c1e92406)
School Children (Medical Inspection) (item number 1) (id c7b5420f-1a06-4366-9951-90ac34a9ba21)
Council Schools (Union Jack) (item number 1) (id bf511199-d6e7-40f8-a82e-e220664731c5)
Mauritius Garrison (item number 1) (id 62a45002-f4f1-4621-a7af-e03e64911cc2)
Simple Continued Fever (Malta) (item number 1) (id f0ec6926-adc6-4bb3-ae39-19142a45c4ab)
West Riding of Yorkshire Rivers (Pollution) (item number 1) (id 5397d3a4-8a1c-469f-ae52-9212ba707d2f)
Indentured Coolie Labour (Committee of Inquiry) (item number 1) (id 06cd4a3b-27c4-40a6-9b01-25f77da8e388)
Main Roads (Tax on Motors) (item number 1) (id f55e780a-cb9e-4dad-a086-d15b3ebcf17b)
Old Age Pensions Act (Inland Revenue Officers) (item number 1) (id 71589e1d-d68b-4c85-b684-3565d84286a1)
Naval Outlay on New Construction (item number 1) (id 3b5ee556-c259-42fd-a6ca-f76e1082ac90)
The Pay of Wood Caulkers (item number 1) (id d818f875-57c3-450f-bae9-80aa15f8d145)
Land Purchase at Rosyth (item number 1) (id 1106c0c9-3881-412a-935d-f6dcc9511493)
Workmen's Petitions (item number 1) (id fe2389b8-1205-4077-9a67-dce05b6c6f77)
Railway Servant Statistics (item number 1) (id abcf98b7-e271-4a27-a7a5-3aa13fbb6e57)
Flour (Home Manufacture and Imported) (item number 1) (id fb04e785-435d-4b96-a02b-e0d2279c6b39)
Most-Favoured-Nation Conditions (item number 1) (id 6c29e083-fb3b-4289-94d0-900c99da3b85)
Shops (Hours of Work) (item number 1) (id c9c30e49-480e-40bf-a4f5-6bdf26422b60)
Accidents to Railway Servants (item number 1) (id 9fed8139-079f-4a2b-b9a8-dcb66e0bc790)
Surface-Contact Trams (item number 1) (id b188496c-6396-43b7-86a7-a2f07ce32239)
Shop Hours Bill (item number 1) (id c60394f6-d473-4ee8-9bf2-40b37ae4c8b3)
Manufactured Goods Exported (item number 1) (id 01e3140a-b6ff-4b5e-97fe-0216c3166c17)
Spitalfields Market (City Corporation v. Horner) (item number 1) (id 33cf48b7-af50-4f1b-852a-5dd8392308d0)
Reinstatement Applications (Aughaderry, County Monaghan) (item number 1) (id 316bf56c-d8ea-4800-bfa6-9faac8ad4d45)
Estates Commissioners (Rathreddy Estate Loughrea) (item number 1) (id e8615c00-4cdd-42dd-9c79-9b5fe0d55fc1)
Blake Whyte Lands (Mr. J. Broderick) (item number 1) (id f3d5a5a4-99b1-4929-8fa8-25557671576c)
St. George's Estate, County Galway (item number 1) (id 0f4ba3e6-2bf8-4c44-a351-ba07644da120)
Loughrea District Council (Road Contractor) (item number 1) (id 2990a942-7626-43af-8392-1973c6b3db55)
Collum's Estate, County Fermanagh (item number 1) (id a6c88ae9-71c0-4196-9b71-8ccb7da55405)
Labourers (Ireland) Act (item number 1) (id 6264a389-f007-4d41-9519-0b0b5c8e9e5f)
Reinstatement Application (Miss Fonly) (item number 1) (id c0838c2f-9f92-4595-8691-7f5d50de44d9)
Children Act, 1908 (Ireland) (item number 1) (id c1ac550a-5d2f-45cc-8397-dfbd230ec46b)
Kenmare Estate (Turbary) (item number 1) (id e25da0d1-75eb-4a75-a35a-625509d61b1c)
School Attendance (Ireland) (item number 1) (id 0b74a1ea-fdad-4cbe-b380-74c9c2ca145f)
Military Training Ground, County Clare (item number 1) (id a2a4e2e1-26f1-45d0-bbed-ace5339c6fca)
Pacific Cable Telegrams (item number 1) (id d5552b58-39bc-4efe-8588-339cd74404de)
Postal Sub-Offices (Bank Holidays) (item number 1) (id ccd068c8-3c08-4877-8cd3-e86fe5bc9783)

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