The Week in Parliament .
-Oar Parliamentary Correspondent writes : There were few surprises in the King's Speech. Nearly all the items in the legislative programme had already been promised or hinted at in the speeches of Ministers. The Bills to reorganise the white fish industry and to increase the consumption and improve the distribution of milk have been long awaited and are by this time long overdue. It was good news to hear that meals are to be supplied to boys and girls attending junior instruction centres : most members hope that this will be the beginning of a genuine national food policy designed to eliminate underfeeding and malnutrition. Clearly this will be a crowded session but, as far as it is possible to foretell, none of the measures foreshadowed is likely to arouse any violent controversy. The apathy of the electors at by-elections may well be due to the fact that no great measure is now before Parliament (such as the Trade Disputes Bill of 1927, the Unemployment Bill of 1934) producing a really distinct cleavage between Government and Opposition.
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