28 OCTOBER 1949, Page 5

Useful phrases should be noted down as they come to

hand ; c.g., " Most of us will agree with what the hon. member for Kirkcaldy has been saying, not only in respect of corporal punish- ment, in which I, with perhaps a beatable area almost equivalent to his, have shared." Col. Gomme-Duncan in the House of Commons.

A House of Commons prize in this field, incidentally, would undoubtedly go to Scotland, though not in the person of either of these hon. members.

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