This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1929. 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 |
|---|---|
| THE EARL OF BIRKENHEAD | We made very careful statutory provision to see that every interest, public or private, that might be injuriously affected by any such proposal should have the right of a fair and open hearing. |
| THE EARL OF BIRKENHEAD | He proposes to move— " That this House, while approving the principle of the Balfour Note which is in favour of the general cancellation of Allied Debts and of Reparations…" These words fill me with surprise, because the purpose of my Motion is to move— " That this House approves of the principle of the Balfour Memorandum." The only reason why I put this Motion upon the Paper was that I thought it was so injurious to the financial prestige of this country that in France, all over the Continent and in the United States of America, it should be widely circulated that a very distinguished man, a very able man, a very moderate man, a man who had held office as Chancellor 349 of the Exchequer and who might reasonably expect to hold that office in the future in certain political developments, should describe this Memorandum as "infamous." If I had been told that this was just an error of expression, a momentary mood, that it did not represent the true opinion of the Labour Party, that the true opinion of the Labour Party was that it approves the principle of the Balfour Note, it would have been another matter. |
| LORD ARNOLD | Since then a Board of Trade reply has come out which admits, certainly in one instance, that there has been an increase of price, and virtually admits it in another; and it is very well known that the Safeguarding 468 Duties have increased the prices of a great many articles, and that they have increased them in a way which is injurious to the poorer classes. |
| LORD PASSFIELD | I have already stated to your Lordships that at this moment discussion on this subject is extremely inconvenient and would, in my judgment, certainly be injurious. |
| THE MARQUESS OF READING | We have done that deliberately, because it is thought to be immoral, unwise, and injurious to the welfare of the people generally that these things should be. |
| LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY | But a more serious charge has been made against them, that they have been injurious to the country which has had to undergo them. |
| LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY | They have been injurious and they will continue to be injurious because, though doubtless in a paradise of Free Trade you can grow the luxuriant flower of Protection, though the ideal state for a trade is to be protected in its industry while surrounded by all the advantages which it draws from cheap importation and cheap necessities for the workmen, for its supplies, for its raw material, the 800 more you develop these little plots of Protection in your Free Trade garden the less will be the advantage derived from these things: You come eventually to a condition where Protection is widespread, and then you find that that widespread condition of Protection deprives those who enjoy it of the advantages which they would have enjoyed if they had been the only ones to get the benefits. |
| LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY | They have been injurious and they will continue to be injurious because, though doubtless in a paradise of Free Trade you can grow the luxuriant flower of Protection, though the ideal state for a trade is to be protected in its industry while surrounded by all the advantages which it draws from cheap importation and cheap necessities for the workmen, for its supplies, for its raw material, the 800 more you develop these little plots of Protection in your Free Trade garden the less will be the advantage derived from these things: You come eventually to a condition where Protection is widespread, and then you find that that widespread condition of Protection deprives those who enjoy it of the advantages which they would have enjoyed if they had been the only ones to get the benefits. |
| LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY | In the first place, they urge that frequent changes in tariffs are injurious to the country which indulges in them. |
| LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY | It is a never-ending chase of tariffs after wages and wages after tariffs—not ruinous, perhaps, to the protected industries, but ruinous to those industries which stand outside, and gravely injurious to those industries which cannot he protected. |
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