21 NOVEMBER 1931, page 3

Mrs. Webb And The Dole Mrs. Webb (lady Passfield), As

a witness before the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance last week, made it clear that she had no liking for the grandiose and fantastic scheme put forward by the Trades......

Rehousing Slum Dwellers One Of The Serious Difficulties...

way of rehousing slum dwellers is reflected in a dispute between the London County Council and its tenants on a housing estate at Peckham. The tenants say that their weekly......

Money To Burn At The Moment When The People Of

this country is being urged by every adviser who deserves a- hearing to lay out what money it has with a special sense of responsi- bility, and in particular to buy British......

* * * * Bank Rate 6 Per Cent., Changed

from 41 per cent. on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 97 ; on Wednesday week, 961 ; a year ago, 1021. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday......

The End Of The Airship The Survivor Of Our Two

vast airships has been sold by the Air Ministry and is to be broken up. ' It 100,' launched two years ago, made a successful trip to Canada and back in June, 1930. But since her......

Allotments , For The Unemployed There Should Be An...

generous response to the appeal of the Society of Friends for £30,000 to carry on the allotments on which many thousands of unem- ployed men have found congenial work for......

The Mechanical Farm Hopes Raised By The Apostles Of The

mechanization of the land were never more precisely and professionally put than at - a meeting of Hampshire farmers, held last week at Winchester. Lord Lymington, whose recent......