USE OF LEAD PAINT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 23 June 1924, Page 9

USE OF LEAD PAINT.

Prohibiting its Use. DECISION OF HOUSE OF COMMONS. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, June 21. In the House of Commons, Mr Rhys Davis moved the second reading of

the Lead Paint Bill, which ratifies the resolution of the International La hour Convention adopted at Geneva in November, 1921. The Bill prohibits the use of lead paint for interior painting after November 19, 1927. The mover said both master painters and men favoured the Bill. He quoted statistics showing the fatalities from lead poisoning. Mr E. A. Harney, in moving the rejection of the Bill, declared that there was no substitute for lead paint. Mr E. C. Grenfell, in seconding the rejection, alleged that Mr J. H. Thomas, as a director of the International Labour Bureau, was biassed in favour of the zinc industry. He contended that the Bill would result in an increase in the cost of zinc, which would be used instead of white lead. It would increase the cost of painting and throw the white lead workers out.

Mr Harney withdrew his rejection motion, and the Lead Paint Bill was read a second time.

Mr Henderson strongly deprecated Mr Grenfell’s attack on Mr Thomas. He repudiated the suggestion of bias and said if Clause 1 of the Bill, enacting prohibition, were deleted in Committee, he would still proceed with the remainder of the Bill, providing for the regulation of the use of white lead paint. '.