Report, 1928-continued. Post Office-cont. Surplus: Difference between figures in Commercial Accounts and Financial Statement, Murray 641-5--Increase 1927-28 as compared with 1926-27, Murray 1050-52. Telegraph capital, charge for interest on, Murray 703. Telegraph service: Exchequer advances, etc., Bunbury 1086-9- Telegraph and telephone services: Charge to Departments, Hopkins Wayleaves, Murray 940-3. Telephone Service: Apparatus, provision of certain things for Air Force, Sparkes 815-Automatic, financial effect and progress in installing, Murray 1143-7, first exchange, Murray 1210, purchase from contractors, Murray 1155-60, redundant operators will be absorbed by natural wastage, Murray 1206-8Bad debts, Murray 1090-1, 1095-6; Bunbury 1096-8- -Boxes, extra charge per call to pay for upkeep, Murray 1121-5- Calls, number per subscriber, 2nd Report, App. III- -Capital expenditure, method of dealing with, Hopkins 265-76, 328-30- -Complaints, method of dealing with, Murray 1184-205- -Concrete telephone boxes, guarantee required if not likely to pay not anticipated, Murray 1178- -Continental calls, Murray 1168-70; Leech 1171-2, profit, Murray 1161-7, 1173-4 Operators Efficiency of, Murray 1201-5--Inefficient, procedure re, Treasury control, nature of, Hopkins 262-4- -Tube, probable results, Post Report, 1928-continued. Post Office-cont. Uniform clothing: for Government messengers, provision of, Murray 790-2 Purchase, inspection and making up, Sparkes 774-80; Murray 780. Uniforms, lowering of standard, Murray 950-2- -Wireless receiving licences, accounting system, Bunbury 1211-3; Murray 1214-5. Wireless telegraph service: Direction finding service, Bunbury 1085Loss on, but profit anticipated from inclusion of beam service in account, Murray 1080-84--Rugby station, mainly constructed for strategic defence purposes, Murray 1080-4. Public Accounts.-Form of, 1st Report II. R. Royal College of Art.-not Self-supporting and question of increasing fees, Symonds 2566-73. S. Scottish Board of Agriculture.-Collection of agricultural statistics for, by Board of Customs and Excise, Floud 1790-92. SPARKES, H., C.B.E., 637-841. Post Office.-Poles, 707, 766-73, 840Signal service, 811-2——Stores, obsolete, 808-10, purchases, system 704-11, 715-25, 730-5, 737, 742-61, 766, 816-9, stock, 697-702, Suspense stock, 807, value of purchases and of stock, 691-6- -Telephone apparatus, provision for Air Force, 815-Uniform clothing, 774-80. SPIERS, H. R., Accountant-General, Board of Inland Revenue, 19612361. Inland Revenue, Board of.-Assessments Division, 2072-85- -Buildings and Supplies, 2288--Collectors, appointment, 2133-5--Fees in respect of registration of business names, 2147, 2167- -Income Tax defaulters, 2073-85, inspectors, stationery supply 2289-91, inspectors, 2066-8--Joint Stock Banks, arrangement with, 2321-40--Valuation of land, 2301. SYMONDS, Sir Aubrey, K.C.B., Permanent Secretary, Board of Education, 2362-2709. Education, Board of.-Administration and inspection, cost in London, 2624-51- -Buildings and maintenance, 2553-5- -Civil servants, superannuation, 2560-Classes, size, 2623, 2694, 2661- -Clerks, 2451, 2455-6- -Consolidated Fund, teachers' annuities, 2561-5Cost per child, 2616-7, 2662-5--County Hall, loan charges, 2631-47 -Elementary schools, equipment of children on leaving, 2549Expenditure, 2424-33- Grants, 2370-4, 2585-600, control over expenditure of local authorities, 2655-73-Inspectors and inspection, 2457-66, 2457-509, 2469-80, 2511, 2512-23, 2525, 2528-48, 2574-8Loan charges, allocation of, 2644-54-Museums under control of, 2366- -Nursery schools and day nurseries, 2670- -Paper keepers, 2448-54- School age, 2700- -School population, estimates and future accommodation requirements, 2679-99– -Secondary schools, free places, 2701-2-Special services, 2673-6, 2678-Staff, 2438-47 Stationery and printing, 2556-9 Teachers, salaries, 2601-2, 2604-22, superannuation, 2368-81, 2407, 2417-23, uncertificated, 2670. SYMONDS Report, 1928-continued. SYMONDS, SIR AUBREY, K.C.B.-cont. Museums and Galleries, Royal Commission on, 2362-3, 2581-3—Royal College of Art, 2566-73. T. TALLENTS, S.G., C.B., C.B.E., Secretary of the Empire Marketing Board, 1224-1774. Development Commission, 1720-5. Empire Marketing Board- -Administrative expenses, 1524Advertisements, contracts, method of placing, etc., 1292, 1296-8, 1332-1423, 1608-21- -Chairman, 1271-3- -Cinema work, 1579-608-Committees and Sub-Committees, 1265-7--Dioramas, models, etc., 1629-37--Dominions Secretary, powers of, 1497-8- -Estimate, form of, 1248-61, 1263- -Exhibition trains, 1736, 1738-41- -Exhibitions, 1479-94, 1744-Expenditure, Parliamentary control, 1500-4, 1505-7—Fresh milk campaign, 1294-5, 1451, 1452, 1648-50-Functions, 1460-2, 1472-6– Grant, 1541, 1761-7, 1770-1--Home trade, encouragement of, 1318-27, 1449-53 -Lecture campaign, 1542-78- -Meetings and attendance, 1264, 1274, 1499, 1622-6, 1627-8- -Mission of business men to Australia, 1745-53- -Outstanding liabilities, 1772-4Posters, 1425-48Printing, 1454-5--Publicity, nature of, expenditure and procedure, etc., 1275-84, 1288-305, 1315-7, 1328-31, 1333-6, 1424, 1534-5question of results, 1285-7, 1306-14, 1651—Research, aim of, 1656-7, expenditure, 1536-40, 1754-9, fish, 1755, 1660-1, 1704-19, 1731-5, geophysical survey of metalliferous areas of Australia, 1662-703, grants, applications for, method of dealing with, 1269-70, 1652, 1658-61, 1723-6, 1730, 1760, Great Barrier Reef expedition 1704-19, Initiation of, 1654-5, low-temperature station at Cambridge 1728-30, milk feeding in schools, 1648, overlapping with other Departments, prevention, 1652-3- -Road caravan exhibition, 1736-7, 1742-3-Shopping weeks, 1456-71, 1477-8- -Staff, 1227-33, 1235, 1238-47, 1508-25, 1531-3, 1643-7-Sums voted for each of three years, 1495-6Treasury control, 1526-30. 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[Tuesday, 28th February, 1928.]:-Expiring Laws Continuance Act.-Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider which, if any, of the Acts of Parliament now included in the Schedules to the Expiring Laws Continuance Act can with advantage be made permanent or be enacted for periods longer than those prescribed by that Act. Committee nominated of,-Lord Apsley, Sir Henry Buckingham, Colonel Burton, General Cockerill, Mr. Ernest Evans, Sir Patrick Ford, Colonel Fremantle, Colonel Heneage, Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke, Mr. Lougher, Mr. Lunn, Mr. Rosslyn Mitchell, Mr. Oliver, Sir Basil Peto, and Mr. Short. Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records. Ordered, That Five be the quorum.-(Sir George Hennessy). The cost of preparing for publication the shorthand Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee was £7 19s. The cost of printing and publishing this Report is estimated by the Stationery Office at £35 18s 6d. |