100 years ago TUBERCULOUS CATTLE AND PIGS

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES. COMMONS 1913 JUNE 16. 100YEARS AGO THIS MONTH

Mr JAMES HOPE. asked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he can see his way to introduce legislation amending the law with regard to tuberculous cattle , so as to admit of compensation being paid in the  case of cows on a milking rather than a carcase value, and relieving from criminal liability sellers in the market of beasts which they had no reason to suppose  were otherwise than sound?

Mr RUNCIMAN ; The working of the Tuberculosis Order will be carefully watched by the Board and if experience shows that the present measure of compensation for the slaughter of tuberculous  cattle results in hardship, I shall be prepared to consider the question of amending the Order. This can be done without legislation.If  I am right in interpreting the latter part of the question as to the penalty attached to the sale of unsound meat, I must refer the hon. Gentleman on that point to my right hon. Friend the President of the Local Government Board.

Mr JAMES HOPE also asked the President  whether he can see his way to introduce legislation extending to the case of  PIGS  the existing practice with regard to compensation for the slaughter of tuberculous cattle?

Mr RUNCIMAN  The answer is in the negative.

TODAY, 100 YEARS FURTHER ON,WHAT HAS THE GREAT BRITISH PUBLIC GOT? THIS IS WHAT HAS NOW BEEN FOISTED UPON US BY A GOVERNMENT THAT DOES NOT CARE.
IT ONLY CARES THAT IT HAS BEEN ONCE AGAIN, BEEN FOUND WANTING! READ ON.

Tens of thousands of diseased cattle, slaughtered after testing for bovine tuberculosis are being SOLD for HUMAN CONSUMPTION by DEFRA 'again for emphasis' DEFRA, the food and farming ministry has said.

The raw meat from around 27.000 diseased animals a year is banned by most supermarkets (we should be told which ones are doing the opposite), and burger chains, (ditto).
Tesco for example ,rejects it because of Public Health concerns surrounding the issue of bTB and its risks to consumers.

BUT ,HERE IS THE WORST PART, it is being sold to some caterers(WHO?)  and FOOD PROCESSORS(WHO?) and finding its way into SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS and the MILITARY or being processed into products such as PIES and PASTIES.

A SPOKESMAN FOR DEFRA,WHICH MAKES £100 MILLION A YEAR FROM SELLING THE INFECTED CARCASSES SAID "all meat from cattle slaughtered due to thingy must under go rigorous sppoot checks before it can be passed fut fer consumption. so there!

100 YEARS, STILL NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE!!!LOAN SHARKS.

                                   THE LOAN SHARKS ARE CALLING IN A DEBT!
                                                      POOR FRAZER.

SCOTSMAN.newspaper,Wed 26 June 2013 (keep an eye on the date.)

PAYDAY LOAN FIRMS TO FACE SPOTLIGHT.
Payday lenders ,charities and UK. Government ministers will meet to discuss "widespread" problems in the loan industry.
Consumer minister Jo Swinson will host a summit to discuss whether plans for tougher regulation of the £2 billion sector will be enough

               PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES .COMMONS (take note of the date) 30 June 1913.
PAWNBROKERS (RATE OF INTEREST CHARGED)
Mr LEACH  ASKED THE HOME SECRETARY IF, IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT THE ACT OF PARLIAMENT REGULATING THE RATE OF INTEREST CHARGEABLE BY PAWNBROKERS PROVIDES THAT SUCH INTEREST SHALL NOT EXCEED 25 PER CENT.PER ANNUM, HIS ATTENTION HAS BEEN CALLED TO FIGURES SHOWING THAT IN THE MAJORITY OF CASES OF LOANS TO THE WORKING CLASSES THE INTEREST VARIES FROM 500 PER CENT TO 1,000 PER CENT PER ANNUM , AND THAT ON AN AVERAGE THE INTEREST WORKS OUT AT OVER 200 PER CENT PER ANNUM.,AND WHETHER HE WILL APPOINT A SELECT COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY OR CAUSE INVESTIGATIONS TO BE MADE INTO THE WORKINGS OF THE PAWNBROKING ACT?

Mr McKenna; my right honourable friend has asked me to reply to this question. My attention has not been previously called to the matter, and the records of my Department contain no information with regard to it. My hon Friend has sent me an extract from a newspaper , from which the figures in the question are apparently taken ,but I should be glad if he could furnish me with the evidence on which the article is based.    Fin.

Myself, 'it is difficult to believe that similar exploitations of certain classes in society is still,after 100years,being allowed to happen.
Governments must shoulder the blame for this sorry state of affairs!

THEN AND NOW. 100 YEARS ON TENANT FARMERS

At this moment in time, in Scotland, some tenant farmers are in legal battles with their landlords and 100's more face losing their homes and livelihoods after a court ruling that upholds landlords rights to evict tenant farmers and put them and their families onto the street.

There are those tenant farmers who are at this moment in time probably fighting a losing battle,just like tenant farmer, Mr. A.Riddell of Peaston Farm, Ormiston, East Lothian.who most sorrowfully took his own life when faced with eviction, being in a 'Limited Partnership ' lease and had tenure and despite his family having farmed that land for more than 100 years he was given notice to quit by his landlord, Mr A.Salvesen.
Campaigners have attacked a ruling by the UK's highest court,' THE LONDON BASED,' SUPREME COURT' that gives wealthy businessmen back powers to force 100's of tenant farmers of their land..

As usual when it comes down to it, there are those for, and those against, anything and everything be it renting or buying.Wealthy landowners and tenant farmers. The laidback, and those whose backs are laid against the wall. Who knows what lies ahead , will the wealthy hive of to sunnier climes or the
poor do what their forefathers did ,emigrate for a better life in another country? We may better know the answer after the Referendum.

100 years ago ,very nearly to the day!
PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE  HOUSE OF COMMONS , AGRICULTURE, SCOTLAND.
26 JUNE 1913
Mr.FALCONER: I rise not for the purpose of discussing the work of the Board of Agriculture, generally but, for the purpose of saying a word with the regard to the Small Holdings problem in the Lowlands. I hold very strong opinions on this question. I think that as far as Scotland is concerned ,the development of Small holdings and the populations of the country districts is a matter not of choice but of absolute necessity if Scotland is to continue in the future as she has in the past to depend very largely upon a race brought up within her own shores  It is quite obvious to anyone who takes note of the change which is going on in Rural Districts that people are leaving them, and that the same class of people are not being maintained there .I myself have been much struck by two things in my own experience . One thing that strikes me in the Low Counties with which I am best aquainted , on the East Coast of Scotland is the number of people going abroad to find land ,and the second thing that strikes me ,and it is emphasised by reading the Report Of the Board of Agriculture is the comparatively small number of applications made to the Board of Agriculture for land in the Low Counties."

Mr Falconer goes on in a similar vein, and then goes on to emphasise that there is enough land available and that there are many men eminently suitable to apply to the Board and take advantage of the Small Landowners Act . The problem as Mr Falconer sees it is the fact that no men are willing to release themselves from employment just on the hope that they will be successful in their endeavours to obtain a Small Holding .  Mr Falconer is truly concerned about the amount of men leaving Scotland to emigrate to Canada, Australia and New Zealand.)


from myself,'
There has been in the not so distant past,and in more recent times in Scottish Land history where the objectives of landowners and tenant farmers have diverged to such an extent that the only means of solving such disputes is through the courts.
Taking the recent example of landowner verses tenant which ended so badly for all concerned, especially for Mr Riddell who, when the judgement went against him, he took his own life.
The landowner and his representatives will also be much scarred by this tragic unforeseen event.
A sorry tale indeed for all the reluctant participants.

                                          ACROSS THE ROAD, ( A8), FROM THE ROYAL
                                         HIGHLAND SHOWGROUND.AND WE ARE STILL
                                                                    IN EDINBURGH!

THE SCOTSMAN, newspaper reported,Friday 21 June 2013.
Both supporters and opponents of tenant farmers having a right to buy their properties were taken aback yesterday after Scottish rural cabinet secretary Richard Lochhead surprisingly put the issue back on the agenda.
With the Scottish Government having opposed this policy back in 2008 most observers considered the controversial issue closed,but Lochhead said his 180degree turn was born of his frustration over the paucity of farm tenancies coming on to the market.


PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 26 JUNE 1913 (exactly 100 years ago)

MR MacCALLUM SCOTT ;If there is to be a large and successful extension of smallholdings ,it can only be accomplished by a large development in afforestation. It is hardly realised what afforestation means for Scotland. There is one quarter of the surface of Scotland at present lying waste or being used for poor grazing or purposes of sport which could be better used for afforestation than at present ,and which cannot be used for smallholdings because it is not arable land. Just think what the reclamation of one quarter of the surface of Scotland would mean. It would mean more for Scotland than if the gold mines of the Rand were discovered there, because they would be worked out someday,but if we had this quarter of the land of Scotland afforested it would add greatly to the material prosperity of Scotland.The land to which I am referring is not suitable for the best kind of agriculture, but it is not waste and desert and stony land.

SIR G. YOUNGER;   BUT IT IS LAND SUBJECT TO TERRIBLE RAVAGES AND GALES, WHICH MAKE IT HOPELESS FOR CULTIVATION.

 

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100 years ago, level crossings,then and now!

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES. COMMONS, 1913
MIDLAND RAILWAY (LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT)
Mr.WILLIAM THORPE asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention had been called to a fatal accident that occurred on Friday last at the level crossing on the Midland railway line at Bulwell, Notts, where two boys aged fourteen, were instantly killed by an express train; if he can state the number of fatal and other accidents that have occurred at the same level crossing; and whether he intends taking any action in the matter?
Mr BUXTON: I have received a notice of this accident , and am awaiting further particulars. The records of the Board of Trade for the last thirty years do not show that there has been any other accident at this crossing within that period.
Mr W. THORNE: Have the Board considered the desirability of doing away altogether with level crossings  in certain parts of the country?
Mr BUXTON: That raises a rather big question. But I am glad to say that in this particular case this is the first accident that has occurred for thirty years.
  
              1OO YEARS FURTHER ON DOWN THE LINE!

London and Southeast

RAIL SAFETY TEAMS across the country are hosting more than 100 aware events at level crossings including Cookham and Furze Platt in Maidenhead, to help educate people about how to cross the railway safely and prevent accidents.
Level crossings safety in Britain is among the best in Europe, despite this 9 people were killed at level crossings in the last year and 453 people were involved in a near miss,either as pedestrians or motorists. There were 10 collisions between vehicles and trains and a further 33 vehicles struck and damaged barriers.
These new figures have been published today (7 May 2013 ) by NETWORK RAIL, one of 45 world wide organisations supporting INTERNATIONAL LEVEL CROSSING AWARENESS DAY on 7 May 2013

                                         Waiting for Network Rail Safety Team

' WONGA', OR ANOTHER NAME FOR LOAN SHARKS!

"Well then  young Arthur, what are you going to do when you grow up?
"I'm going to be a Loan Shark"
"We don't call them Loan Sharks nowadays Arthur, we call them, Payday Lenders"
"Me mum says 'Sharks is sharks ,uncle Pawn."
"Its John, Arthur,uncle John,trust me son, have you seen your mums purse anywhere?
"Me mum said only yesterday, that last October, Jonathan Luff a senior adviser to David Cameron quit Downing St. to become a lobbyist for Wonga.
"So, your point young Arthur?
"Mum said that he should be ashamed of himself and how did his family feel about him being part of a network of crooks,uncle Pawn?
"Its uncle John, young Arthur, and you have lost me.
"Better than loosing your self respect uncle John.
"Thanks Arthur,here's 10p go and buy yourself something nice.
"Ta,uncle John, but I think the adviser would be well advised to return to his kennel in Downing St.What do you think uncle John?
"I'm beginning to see your point of view young Arthur, tell your mum I've gone down to the Jobcentre!

100 years ago, Then As Now ! Bankers !

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1913   JUNE 25

STAMFORD,SPALDING,AND BOSTON BANKING COMPANY LTD.
MR. CHARLES ROBERTS asked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention had been directed to the affairs of the Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company Limited which in 1911 was taken over by another bank and wound up; whether the consent of the shareholders to the amalgamation was secured without warning to them of any financial difficulties and subsequent to the payment, after providing for all bad and doubtful debts,of a 10 per cent. dividend for the previous year ;whether he is aware that in the winding -up heavy losses have been revealed, involving grave distress to  many persons in Lincolnshire and surrounding counties, and that the liquidator has declined a request from a committee of shareholders for the full and public examination of the directors and officials of the bank, so that the shareholders have received no adequate explanation up to date of the way in which the these losses; and whether he can secure that such an examination shall be held?

Mr. ROBERTSON: The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company,Limited, is being wound up voluntarily , and the Board of Trade, therefore, have no information as to the company's business or as to the circumstances connected to the winding-up and the sale of the goodwill, except  so far as appears from the accounts which the liquidator has filed. These accounts are open to inspection by all creditors and shareholders of the company. A public examination of the directors of a company can only be held in the case of a company being wound up by the Court and an order being made by the Court for that purpose.                     
                                                                BANK of ENGLAND

 

 

BANKINGS A LARK, ROSES ALL THE WAY .

But a Banker,engaged at enormouse expense,had the
whole of their cash in his care!
A cheque for seven pounds,he sold for nine, to
The Thing-Um-A-Jig.
He would, and he did,laugh at MP's,
not returning their Wonga,
with an impudent wag of his head.
And he once went a walk
hand in paw with a Panda.
Just to keep up its spirits, he said.
The mono Panda,alone of its class, desired amongst
others a Scot, Panda Lass.
To wit and to woo in an Edina Glade.
And the Bellman perplexed and distressed
Said he hoped,at least when the wind
blew due East
that the ship  would not travel due West!
But the danger was past,they had landed at last
with their boxes, portmanteaus and bags.
Yet at first sight,the crew were not pleased with the view,
which consisted of chasms and Salisbury Crags.
But two of the crew were very much happy,
up the mast on the nest the semimonkey stared down
and held up his,' Okay' thumb.
He smiled at the Panda, the Panda smiled back.
They landed,t'was morning,the Banker was yawning.
They accosted the Banker and desired him to meet
with them on the foreshore at Granton ,no less
They danced a jig and munched on a fig.
Please Sir Banker, our money return,If we
remember correctly the amount was a twenty.
The Lord Banker replied with a sword by his side
Please think of a number, any number will do,
add another,the amount's up to you, selfwish a triple dish of thrice,
undo all that men and Panda's contrive ,the answer
my friends is a five,or in your case dear Panda the cartoon shows four!
The total is nine.
It has been a long voyage
and my wife,she is waiting
for me and whats mine
Farewell then,
Goodbye, or not,as the case may be
Ta Ta Cheerio,you've had your lot ,
just don't ask, what it was, that wot  I got!

With abject apologies to the memory of ,
LEWIS CARROLL. Sorry