asked the Minister of Labour the latest figures of unemployed upon the register at the Borough Road, Walworth, Unemployment Exchange?

The following Table shows the numbers on the registers of the Borough Employment Exchange at 4th July, 1927:pastes, inks, matches, etc," recorded as unemployed are as under:

Date.		Hull.	Great Britain.
22nd June, 1925	…	944	6,210
25th June, 1926	…	1,091	6,616
20th June, 1927	…	1,527	5,974

asked tħe First Lord of the Admiralty the number of typewriters used in the headquarters offices of his Department, giving the country of origin of these machines?

The number of typewriters in use in the headquarters offices of the Admiralty is 464. Of this number, 440 were manufactured in the United States of America and 24 in Canada. The reasons for the number of foreign typewriters in use was explained by my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury in his reply of the 22nd February, 1926, to the hon. and gallant Member for Basing stoke (OFFICIAL REPORT, cols. 26–7).

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what number of small holdings and enlargements have been constituted in Scotland each year since the War; what was the total cost of these schemes in each year for small holdings and enlargements, respectively; what is the total number of applicants for small holdings on the Board of Agriculture's list at the present moment; and what number of new holdings and enlargements, respectively, he proposes to constitute throughout Scotland during the current year?

The numbers of new holdings and enlargements constituted by the Board during the years mentioned are as follow:

Year.			New Holdings.	Enlargemants.	Total.
1919	…	…	282	114	396
1920	…	…	227	90	317
1921	…	…	415	307	722
1922	…	…	433	304	737
1923	…	…	322	108	430
1924	…	…	269	126	395
1925	…	…	102	113	215
1926	…	…	148	47	195

With regard to the question of costs, I should explain that payments and receipts in connection with schemes of land settlement are spread over periods of years; that consequently the money transactions in any specified year are not wholly in respect of and do not represent the total expenditure on holdings constituted during that year; and that, having regard to the fact that schemes

are usually of a composite nature, it is not practicable to separate costs of new holdings and enlargements. I append, however, for the information of the hon. and gallant Member a note of the nett capital expenditure (i.e., excluding annual payments and receipts) on schemes of land settlement for each of the years 1919–20 to 1926–27, inclusive:

			£	s.	d.
1919–20	…	…	182,474	14	1
1920–21	…	…	609,555	2	0
1921–22	…	…	385,661	2	3
1922–23	…	…	192,046	13	1
1923–24	…	…	205,211	18	9
1924–25	…	…	141,122	19	11
1925–26	…	…	96,014	2	4
1926–27	…	…	130,542	19	8

The outstanding applications on the Board's lists at 30th June, 1927, were 6,940 for new holdings and 3,298 for enlargements.It is anticipated that during the present year 78 new holdings and 60 enlargements will be constituted by the Board.

asked the Secretary of State for Air the terms of contract, general working hours, and rate of pay daily of the sandwich-board men engaged to advertise the recent air display?

The engagement of sandwich-board men to advertise the recent air display is a question for the Royal Air Force Display Committee, an unofficial body, and not for the; Air Ministry, inasmuch as the cost of this and similar expenditure incurred in connection with the display is met from nonpublic funds and is not a charge against Air Votes. I have accordingly no official information as regards the terms of contract, general working hours, and other matters raised in this question.

asked the Postmaster-General whether, seeing that accounts opened under the Post Office Savings Bank are guarded and retained until either the persons who deposited the money have authorised its withdrawal, or in the case of decease the person legally declared, he is aware that when persons having accounts with the Post Office Savings Bank become inmates of a county asylum their savings book is claimed by the board of guardians of the area; and whether he will take steps to see that such regulation conferred by Section 299 of the Lunacy Act, 1890, is mentioned among the rules and regulations of Post Office deposits?

I am aware that where a lunatic is chargeable to a Poor Law Union the guardians under Section 299 of the Lunacy Act of 1890 may obtain a Justice's order for the seizure of such money belonging to the lunatic as the Justice may think sufficient to pay the expenses of maintenance. The application of this Section of the Act extends not only to deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank but to other property possessed by insane persons For this reason, and because so small a proportion of Savings Bank depositors are affected, I do not think that any further reference to the provision in the Post Office Deposit Book beyond that which now appears in the most recent issues is necessary or desirable.