21 JUNE 1935, page 3

The Debates On The Committee Stage Of The Finance Bill

have been curiously " dead." In the days before the War they afforded the greatest liveliness of the summer session. They continued over many weeks, there were all night......

This Has Happily Not Been True Of Colonel Muirhead, Who

has stepped from a Parliamentary Private Secretary- ship to the Parliamentary Secretaryship at the Ministry of Labour, probably the most important of the Under- Seeretaryships.......

In The Absence Of Mr. Walter Elliot . A Long

series of questions were answered by a Junior Whip. It occurs to me that a much better practice in the absence of the Minister of a Department, where as in the case of the......

The Tax On Actors And Musicians It Is Satisfactory That

the Chancellor of the Exchequer should on Tuesday have declared himself ready to consider in principle a small reduction of the entertain- ment-tax on theatres where an......

The B.b.c. And The Public Sir John Reith Has Been

expressing himself with some vigour on the wastage of effort resulting from , the failure of various persons and organizations, particularly the schools, to take full advantage......

The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

observer of Parliament soon becomes an expert on the varying notes of enthusiasm, polite indifference, merciless irony or downright dislike conveyed in the " hear-hears " with......

Matriculation The Matriculation Board For Manchester;...

Leeds Universities has Made recommendations which may be the ,beginning - of the end of the tyranny which Matriculation exam- inations have exercised in secondary schools. An......

Anti-aircraft Territorials Those Metropolitan Units Of...

have accepted conversion into Anti-Aircraft Defence Units have made no small sacrifice in cutting themselves off from their associates in their divisional organizations. On the......