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Major McKenzie Wood Banffshire) recently asked Prime Minister whether the Gov- ernment had appointed or intend- to appoint a committre economists, in sulition to the conomic advisory council, to ad vise them on industrial and fiscal questions.
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Mr, Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer) In addition to inves tigations which have been public. ly announced. committees have been appointed from time to time to study certain questions, Cormation can be given in regard to the latter clasa of Inquiry,
Major McKenzie Wood-Hus the Minister seen the report In a a daily
No in-
paper thul a Recret committee of this kind has been set up, and can he give the natnes of the members and the nature of the report?
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Mr. Snowden--The hon. ment- her has, like myself, been ficiently long in politics to attach very little importance to political Osip that appears in the news- рарега..
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THIRTEEN MEN'S IMMENSE TASK.
MAKING ROAD TRAVEL EASIER AND SAFER.
tion. Aged 47.
Bouth Wales.
Mr. A. T. James, KC., a former Pontypridd solicitor; called to the Bar in 1011 and became a K.C. in 1928; practises on the South Wales Circuit; speaks Welsh. Aged 47. Western.
Mr. A. F. Nicholson, Chief Con- stable of Exeter. Aged 54. Southern.
SALARY PUZZLE.
Sir Reginald Major-General ara Ford, who served in the Royal apparently Distinctionn being made in the salaries of the Army Service Corps from 1893 to 13 traffle commissioners, who will 1919, his duties giving him exce be armed with almost unlimited tional experience in the organian- powern under the new Road Acftion of transport; during the with the object of evolving from Great War was Dopaty Quarter- the present tangle of road services master-General at headquarters in an orderly network covering the France. Aged 62. whole country.
South-Eastern.
and'
WHAT “JACK” READS.
SAILORS WHO CARE FOR BEST BOOKS.
SHIP'S 5,000 NOVELS.
Any Idea that Ballora "don't care"-about serious reading-la abundantly disproved by the re- wall, after 2 years" foreign com- turn to Plymouth of H.M.S. Corn-
fawer During that period no mission. than 6,000 novels were sold from the bookstall on board.
The variety of reading shows that Jack by no means confines himself to the Edgar Wallace type of thriller.
His preferences were for: {Dickens.
Thackeray. Scott.
Jane Austen. Hardy.
Wella and R. L. S. were also
Mr. Rowand Harker, K.C., called Announcing the names of 11 of the commissioners in the House of to the Bar in 1905 and practised Commons, Mr. Morrison gavo the on the South-Eastern Circuit and total cost of salaries as between in London; since 1919 has prae- To atised at Parliamentary Bar: be- £15,900 and £16,000 a year.
camo a K.C. in 1926. Aged 51. reporter he said:
know £1,000 to £1,200 was Northern Scotland.
Sir John Maxwell, n former The Brontes. mentioned in the advertisements for the commissioners, but the Dumfries solicitor; han seted as right was reserved to the Minister Governor, Colonial Secretary. At-favourites, while even Galsworthy's
Solicitor-Forsyte Saga" was in demand. to pay more where circumstances [torney-General
"Musically" Jack seems to have justified it. Thero need be no General on the Gold Coast, and
was chairman of a liking for the song of birds, and mystery about these salaries, but while there the public knows what we are committee on the reorganisation there were hundreds of canaries motor trans-in board, brought home, with tons on the commis- jof the Government going to spend
uf other treasure trove, as gifts. sioners and thore would appear to port service. Aged 55..
Every mana and wardroom seem- precise Northern Scotland. why the bo no renson
Mr. Archibald Henderson, once led to be converted into an aviary, other faniary to be paid to any particular
now nand on the streets every a tramway conductor: Individual should be stated."
11 Rulers of the Rond. tional secretary of the Road Tran- sailor seemed to carry à anary The new road chiefs include a sport Group (Commercial) of the in a gilded enge.
New Type Sailor, Major-General. two chlef con-Transport and General Workers'
Although the old-fashioned con- stables, two K.Cs, and a former Union; a member of the London
and Home Counties Advisory Com feeption of the sailor as a happy- mittee since August, 1929. Aged-lucky person, with little editen 144.
tion and loose habits, is fast dis- ppeuring. It is not always reallsed at to-day his Majesty's ships are manned by men of a far superior stamp.
ramway conductor.
The full list is:
Northern Ares.
Mr H. Riches Chief Constable of Mildtesbrough for the past 28 vents, Aged C5 North-Western.
Mr. W. Chamberlain, General Manager and engineer of Belfast since 1928; for (ty Tramways merly tramways manager at Old- hum and terds. Aged 52. West Midland.
Cal. A, S. Redman. formerly Assistant Director of Transport and now Assistant Adjutant- General, War Office: a member of the Institute of Transport. Azed 161.
East Midland.
Mr. J. L Stirk, Transport Mannyer, Birmingham Co-opera- Live Society: vice-chairman of the Birmingham section of the Insti- tute of Transport and vice-chair- man of the National Council of the Commerein! Motor Users' Associa-
District Not Specified.
Sir Hairland Hiley, General Manager the New Zealand Goy ernment Railways from 1913 to 1919; has served on special com- mittees to Investigate transport conditions in India, Rhodesia and jelsewhere. Aged 60.
Chairmen of Commissioners have still to be appointed for the Yorkshire, Eastern and Metropoli. tan traffic areas.
the
Every year
standard of general knowledge increases, and to reach a higher rating a bluo- jacket must now pass educationni tests which would tax the capacity of the average landsman.
That no efforts are apared to provide men with good literature, What They Will Do.
the contents of lower deck librn- There will be three
boar commis rics
witness. The daily stoners in each area--the full time papers are also read regularly, chairman, one Commissioner ap- enabling any man to keep himself ipolated from a panel submitted to abreast of current events
the Minister by the county council and another selected from a panel nominated by the councils of be to link up the road and rail county boroughs and urban dis- facilities of the country in one
lco-ordinated system: tricts in the area.
Behind the Commissioners will licences for public service vehi-be the new mobile force of 1,000 cles, but their principal task will uniformed policeman on motor-
'cycles.
The Commissioners will issue
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