PARLIAMENT OF BRITAIN
EARLY ADJOURNMENT EXPECTED
British Official Wireless. Rugby, July 22. The Government hopes the outstanding Parliamentary business will be concluded on Friday to enable the House to adjourn for the long summer recess. The matters remaining include the third reading of the Housing Bill, providing for a revision of housing subsidies, and the Development Bill, which deals with loan guarantees and grants for schemes connected with employment. Statements upon naval policy and the conversations regarding disarmament are expected to be° made° by the Prime Minister before tlie House adjourns. The members will also be asked to approve ’of the supplementary estimates, amounting to £206,000, of which about £lOO,OOO will be contributed to the National Radium Trust, the remainder "Oiii" to the National Gallery to assist in the purchase of the Wilton diptych and Titian’s picture of the Cormaro family. The grant in respect of radium is made on the basis of £1 for every £1 provided by voluntary contribution to augment the supply for the treatment of "the sick and for the advancement of knowledge in -undergoing such treatment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1929, Page 14
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