§ 18. Mr. SANDYSasked the Home Secretary whether sympathetic consideration will be given to applications for extended hours of sale of intoxicants in the Metropolitan area in connection with the forthcoming Jubilee celebrations?
§ Sir J. GILMOURAs I have made clear on previous occasions, every application for special extension of hours must be considered individually and on its merits. So far as the Metropolitan Police District is concerned, the Commissioner will give full and sympathetic consideration to every application made to him for extension of hours in the evenings during Jubilee week, or for extension during the afternoon in the areas covered by the Royal Procession on 6th May and the afternoon drives which have been arranged for subsequent dates.
23. Miss WARDasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether, in view of the active part school teachers will be obliged to play in arranging Jubilee celebrations for school children, an additional day's holiday can be granted to school teachers to compensate them for their inability to participate in the general holiday on 6th May?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Ramsbotham)I do not doubt that in cases where teachers are unable to avail themselves of the holiday on 6th May the question of giving them a day's holiday on some other date will be sympathetically considered by the authorities of the schools.
§ Mr. PIKEDoes not the Minister think that teachers already have enough holidays in the course of a year?
§ Mr. McGOVERNHave they as many as you have?
§ 24. Mr H. WILLIAMSasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of medals in commemoration of His Majesty's Silver Jubilee have been shipped into this country from foreign countries; and whether he is prepared to issue a circular advising local authorities who may be contemplating the purchase of medals for distribution to school children to assure themselves so far as is possible that the medals are of British manufacture?
§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative, but my Noble Friend has no information that local education authorities have purchased medals of foreign manufacture. He is strongly of opinion that, where the celebration of the Silver Jubilee takes the form of the distribution of medals or other mementoes to school children, they should be of British manufacture, but, as local education authorities generally have by this date already ordered their supplies, he doubts whether the issue of a circular on the lines suggested would serve any useful purpose.
§ 50. Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMSasked the right hon. Member for Petersfield, as Chairman of the Committee of Selection, whether, in order to meet the convenience of the members and officials of local authorities in connection with local celebrations of His Majesty's Silver Jubilee, he will endeavour, during the period of the Silver Jubilee celebrations, to avoid setting up Committees on Private Bills appointed to meet for the first time that week?
§ Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON (Chairman, Committee of Selection)The hon. Member may rest assured that not only the Chairman of the Committee of Selection but also the chairmen of the different Private Bill committees are always prepared to study the convenience of those who attend these committees.