Major BARNESasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the War now being over and the need for explosives past, he will now enforce the Regulation requiring gas companies to supply gas to a certain calorific standard?
§ Sir A. GEDDESThe statutory requirements as to quality of gas are enforced by the local authorities and not by the Board of Trade. Last June, however, owing to
400Wordinary wage. The payment of 3s. war; wage is not, in my opinion, an inducement to the miner to reduce his output of coal. The question whether war wage should be paid as a flat rate or a percentage on the ton rate was fully considered at the time that the payment of war wage was authorised.