This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1918. Each instance is reproduced in its context as recorded in Hansard.
This survey forms part of the evidence for the correct legal interpretation of injurious weeds in the Weeds Act 1959. See also why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law.
| Speaker | Context |
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| Mr. HERBERT FISHER | The House readily appreciates that it is not my intention to disturb the denominational balance, if I may use that phrase, or to revolutionise our local system of educational administration Upon the whole, I think I have carried the House with me in my resolve to avoid, as far as it is possible to do so, those sources of controversy, which otherwise might prove so injurious to the fortunes of the Bill. |
| Mr. HERBERT FISHER | There is hardly one feature in modern Europe more remarkable than the very large number of men and women holding the most different views in the most confident manner upon the largest possible number of topics, and I would ask the House seriously to consider whether there is really any risk that the extension of public education in this country will be injurious to the sense of parental responsibility. |
| Mr. BALFOUR | But does the hon. Gentleman not see that now Russia lies absolutely derelict upon the waters, and that now it has no power of resistance at all there can be a German penetration from end to end of Russia which, I think, will be absolutely disastrous for Russia 550 itself and certainly will be very injurious to the future of the Allies. |
| Mr. HIGHAM | They take charge of boy scout movements, or honorary classes, or girls' friendly societies, or various organisations in which the children gather together in the evenings, and that which is done by the best of the teachers cannot be injurious to the remainder of the teachers, and there would be in this extension of hours of work greater claim for higher salary which they would get for the number of hours work that are now devoted to unofficial duties, because the authorities do not recognise and cannot be induced to recognise the unofficial duties. |
| Sir A. STANLEY | The course which I am proposing to take, and which I trust will have the acceptance of the House, is that a Select Committee of the House of Commons should be appointed to consider whether, in all the circumstances, any temporary modification of the existing statutory requirements with regard to price and dividends, or any other form of relief, should be afforded in the case of those undertakings whose financial circumstances have been or may be injuriously affected by causes arising out of the War. |
| Mr. L. JONES | It is not only the men you are going to take out of the businesses who are going to affect industry injuriously. |
| Mr. L. JONES | Nothing could be more injurious to the business of the country. |
| Mr. LOUGH | The subject was inquired into by the Commercial Committee upstairs, and there was a unanimous finding that the trades had been very injuriously interfered with. |
| Mr. HODGE | My desire is to see 701 the place used for other purposes—for another class of patients, who will not be subject to the same injurious effects from air-raid bombardments as are shell-shock patients. |
| Mr. RUNCIMAN | I can imagine nothing more calculated to have an injurious effect, where men and women in the same walk of life are in competition—if there be any value in education than to give to girls greater educational advantages than are given to boys. |
| Mr. DENNISS | If it is to be regarded purely as a war tax, there is no objection to it, but if in times of peace the tax is to be not only on raw materials, in which sugar plays a principal part, but also on the finished articles, it is a cumulative tax which is very injurious to industry. |
| Sir P. MAGNUS | because I thought it would be distinctly injurious to the objects of the Bill that a Sub-section of this kind should remain. |
| Mr. FISHER | We do not think a little employment on schooldays is necessarily mimical to the efficiency of the school life, but we have a very great body of evidence to the effect that employment before school hours is very injurious to the efficiency of our elementary school life. |
| Mr. LEWIS | Sunday employment can be, and is at the present time, regulated by by-laws under the Employment of Children Act, 1903, and if any particular forms of Sunday employment are regarded as having an injurious effect on education, it is far more likely in the future that by-laws will be passed respecting them, because my hon. Friend will probably have observed that we propose in this Bill to transfer the power of making by-laws from the existing authority to the local education authority. |
| Mr. T. DAVIES | We have seen the injurious effects resulting from the employment of young people seven days a week during the last two years, and I hope my right hon. Friend may be able to see his way to strengthen the law so as to avoid as much as possible the employment, except where absolutely necessary, of children on Sunday. |
| Mr. A. WILLIAMS | I very much doubt whether anything like the whole of those who are employed are injuriously employed. |
| Mr. ROBERTSON | In his last speech he spoke of the kind of commercial transaction that by implication after the War we should consider as injurious to the interests of this country, and justifying him in either withholding or cancelling a licence. |
| Mr. ROBERTSON | He has been very sparing of definitions, but will he indicate the kind of commercial transaction which after the War he would regard as so injurious to the national interests as to justify him in withholding or cancelling a licence? |
| Mr. LEIF JONES | The only excuse for not presenting to the House Estimates which a Department is ready to provide is that it may be injurious to us from the fact that we are at war. |
| Mr. McKENNA | With that limitation the taxation which is taken by way of Income Tax is taxation which is withdrawn from means of expenditure by the people, and is not injurious to business in time of war, but is most helpful to the country itself by preventing wasteful expenditure. |
| Mr. TURTON | grading centre for fat stock; and whether he is aware that the closing order is detrimental to agriculture and the public interest, as it increases railway transport, is injurious to fat stock, reduces their value by reason of the distances they have to travel, and will ultimately decrease production and the food supply of the country? |
| Sir J. BOYTON | The Court to have power to refuse an order for possession in cases where the enforced removal of the sitting tenant is proved to be injurious to the prosecution of the War." Those are reasonable suggestions to which I hope the right hon. Gentleman will agree. |
| Lord E. TALBOT (Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury) | : I beg to move, "That a Select Committee be appointed to consider and report whether it is expedient that some provision should be made for the temporary modification of statutory requirements with regard to the Charges for the conveyance of traffic on Tramways and Light Railways constructed wholly or mainly on public roads, in the case of undertakings whose financial circumstances have been injuriously affected by causes arising out of the War; and, if so, on what terms and conditions, and whether by private Bill or by general legislation." |
| Mr. ASQUITH | Of that I am perfectly certain, and I think it would be a very injurious thing if his mouth were to be closed in regard to matters of that kind. |
| Sir J. SPEAR | I, therefore, submit that anything that prevents natural development, and the skill of men, in the growth of timber is injurious to the country at large. |
| Colonel Lord HENRY CAVENDISH-BENTINCK | The present hours of labour are not only wasteful, but they are most injurious to the health of the workers, and I for one am very sceptical whether Parliament in its wisdom can really devise a suitable code of hours for the whole of our industry. |
| Mr. J. MASON | The principle of giving State subsidies, by which articles are supplied to the public at less than their real cost, is an injurious and a false state of things. |
| Mr. RAWLINSON | Now the suggestion is to break that agreement, and so injuriously affect the people who put up this school. |
| Sir J. YOXALL | There may be in other portions of the Bill Clauses which will produce effects which may, and almost certainly will, be injurious to the teachers and other persons who may rank as officers under the local education authorities, which effects should be guarded against, if possible, or at any rate for which compensation should be provided in the ordinary way. |
| Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (War Cabinet) | A certain section of Indian reformers, in pressing forward claims which I think are extravagant and harmful to India, as well as injurious to the Empire as a whole, seek to promote their object by attacks upon some of the members of the British Government and the men responsible for it, but I think in so doing they injure their own cause and do a great wrong to the public service, which is one of the glories of our Empire, and without which neither India nor the House of Commons would ever have seen such a scheme of reform as we have before us to-day. |
| VISCOUNT HALDANE | One of the scandals that exist today is that you cannot get a Minerals Bill through without the costly payment of way-leaves to people willing to give you the way-leaves, and long ago a Royal Commission of a very conservative character reported that that was a system which was very injurious to the mineral wealth of the country. |
| LORD BURNHAM | Of course there may be a question of employment being injurious. |
| THE EARL OF LYTTON | At the same time, it was pointed out by several noble Lords that it might have injurious effects upon certain trades, notably in the case of agriculture, and I undertook to reconsider, before the present stage of the Bill, the whole question of Sunday employment. |
| Sir DANIEL GODDARD | It says: "With the view of maintaining in the public interest the stability of gas undertakings, some provision should be made for the temporary modification of statutory requirements with regard to price and dividend in the case of gas undertakings whose financial circumstances have been injuriously affected by causes arising out of the War." The Parliamentary Secretary said that the Government have had to follow what the Committee have laid down. |
| Sir W. MIDDLEBROOK | I would call the attention of the House to the reference to the Committee: "Whether it is expedient that some provision should be made for the temporary modification of Statutory Regulations, with regard to price and dividend, in the case of gas undertakings whose financial circumstances have been injuriously affected by causes arising out of the War." The Committee was appointed consisting of ten members, nine of whom were in constant attendance throughout the whole of the inquiry. |
| Sir GEORGE TOULMIN | If that had been recognised earlier, a great deal of a very injurious controversy and very many cases which have caused great unrest in the country would have been avoided. |
| Major WOOD | If that be so, I think it is an injurious tendency, and one that is not in the interests of those who are concerned. |
| Mr. CHANCELLOR | asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the shortage of coal in Ireland is at present acute; that there has been reduction of the ordinary train services; that, as a result, the travelling and business public are inconvenienced and the interests of Irish seaside and holiday resorts injuriously affected; and that no less than six auxiliary trains, formerly known as specials, were advertised by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company to run for the Curragh races on 25th, 26th, and 27th June, making for both journeys thirty-six special trains altogether; whether these trains were run as advertised; and, if so, whether, in the public interests, he will take steps to secure that such provision for the railway accommodation of race-goers shall not be provided in future, in order that the general public of Ireland may have their fair share of railway travelling facilities? |
| Mr. PETO | Already for fifteen years local authorities have had great powers to prohibit any form of employment or work of a character which was likely to be injurious to the child. |
| Sir J. BUTCHER | : I beg to move in substituted Clause 7(2), after the word "either" to insert "(a) has without lawful authority held any communication with any enemy state or subject of an enemy state, or has been guilty of any other act or conduct which was or is calculated to be dangerous or injurious to the public welfare." I have in mind cases in which breaches of the Defence of the Realm Act have been committed, such, for instance, as communicating with the enemy. |
| Sir J. BUTCHER | If the Committee to whom the matter is referred finds that he has been guilty of an act calculated to-be injurious or dangerous to the welfare of the State surely his naturalisation certificate ought to be revoked. |
| Sir G. CAVE | If a man has been guilty of an unlawful act such as that which my hon. and learned Friend describes he ought to be denaturalised, and no doubt he would be under paragraphs (a) or (b), but I am a little afraid of taking power to denaturalise everyone who performs an act which is calculated to be injurious or dangerous to the public welfare. |
| Sir G. CAVE | You may have many different views as to what is injurious to the public welfare, and, on the whole, I think it would not be wise to have a Minister acting on his own view as to what may be injurious. |
| Sir G. CAVE | You may have many different views as to what is injurious to the public welfare, and, on the whole, I think it would not be wise to have a Minister acting on his own view as to what may be injurious. |
| Sir G. CAVE | I do not think that we ought to accept these very wide words, "calculated to be injurious and dangerous to the public welfare." |
| Mr. PENNEFATHER | In each of those neutral countries we have established a statutory Black List, a list of neutral firms who, by reason of friendliness to the enemy, trading with the enemy, or some other reason injurious to this country, have been placed on the list. |
| Sir G. CAVE | : I think I am justified in accepting the view of the Irish Government that her return to Ireland would be injurious. |
| Sir G. CAVE | In the case of short-sentence prisoners, whose number and distribution constantly vary, it is impossible to ensure that the same garments shall toe worn by a prisoner throughout his sentence, but care is taken to prevent any injurious results. |
| Sir H. DALZIEL | We ought to have one man who could in one hour remove a person who is likely to do something injurious to the interests of our country. |
| Sir J. BUTCHER | Under the Act of 1916 the Board of Trade has the power to cancel agreements made with enemy subjects for the transfer of businesses, "but only where it appears to them that the contract is injurious to the public interest." It is very difficult to say always that for a German to sell his business to some one who will carry it on during the War and hand it back to the German afterwards is against the public interest. |
| THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON) | I said that the test of the action of the Executive ought to be at each stage whether the proceedings of the malcontents were likely to be injurious to the public safety; and I stated that our 392 object in Ireland was to detach public opinion from the extremists and to rally it to the cause of law and order. |
| EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON | Both Sinn Fein and volunteers are deadly opposed to these suspicious raids, which they know well are deadly injurious to their patriotic movement." |
| EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON | I went on in this letter to say that I was sure the noble Lord, from my long experience of him—which will be endorsed by all your Lordships—would not wish to do anything injurious to the public interest; but I said that I thought it would be obvious to him, upon reflection, that to answer such a Question was quite impossible, and that to put it could only do harm. |
| LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE | I also thank him very much for saying that he was sure I had no wish to do anything injurious to the public interest. |
| THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (THE EARL OF CRAWFORD) | I confidently submit that it is going to be gravely injurious to those committees. |
| Mr. ANEURIN WILLIAMS | To my mind a tax upon house room is as injurious and bad in principle as a tax upon bread. |
| Mr. FIELD | asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has received a resolution from the South Dublin Union requesting that the law of settlement should be extended to Ireland; and whether he is aware that the existing practice operates injuriously against Irish interests? |
| Mr. A. WILLIAMS | It would be injurious in a case of this sort. |
| Mr. L. WILLIAMS | asked (1) the Prime Minister whether, having regard to the fact that the Welsh Church Act, 1914, should come into operation at the conclusion of the War after an Order in Council has been made to that effect, that the price of tithe will go up from £109 to £123 next year, and that the Tithe Bill will injuriously affect the financial position of the Welsh county councils, he will advise an Order in Council that the Welsh Church Act should come into operation this year; and (2) the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is prepared to make a statement as to the reopening of the financial Clauses of the Welsh Church Act, 1914? |
| VISCOUNT DEVONPORT | It is very important that we should know when the conference will take place, because delay in these circumstances would not only be most injurious to the men themselves, who have probably been watching keenly what is happening between France and Germany, but it would have a bad impression in this country. |
| LORD MACDONNELL | Not satisfied with providing a Parliament so constituted, we proposed to give a safeguard to any province in Ireland which thought its interests injuriously affected. |
| VISCOUNT CHAPLIN | I took the liberty of pointing out that I thought that a most dangerous and injurious proposal. |
| THE EARL OF CRAWFORD | Some measure of control, therefore, is essential, but under Lord Salisbury's Amendment it would be uncertain whether the State, acting through the Board of Education, could impose any conditions at all in such matters, because the conditions from their very nature could only arise in the case of de- 74 nominational schools, and therefore could be considered to be injurious to their interests compared with those of ordinary grant-aided schools. |
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