3 MARCH 1928, Page 2

The rest of the day was given up to Supplementary

Estimates. The Secretary of State for Scotland explained that in his country National Health Insurance had cost more than had been expected ; part of the cost could be made up from the source where we least like to see inactivity, namely, housing. The Ministry of Agriculture needed more money for the ex-Servicemen's small holdings. On the vote for the compensation of persecuted Irish Loyalists to which we referred last week, the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs said that he hoped that the £1,000,000 allotted would really be enough.