This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1912. 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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| VISCOUNT ST. ALDWYN | I still believe that the institution of an Irish Parliament, with an Irish Government responsible to it, would weaken the United Kingdom and therefore the Empire, would be a retrograde step in our history, would be injurious to the minority in Ireland, and so far from improving the relations which exist between Great Britain and Ireland, would add friction and trouble to those relations. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | I base them upon these three grounds—first, that the Bill is injurious to Ireland; secondly, that it is injurious to England; and, thirdly, because I believe it is fatal to the Empire. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | I base them upon these three grounds—first, that the Bill is injurious to Ireland; secondly, that it is injurious to England; and, thirdly, because I believe it is fatal to the Empire. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | I think it is injurious to Ireland because it will degrade her to a secondary and subordinate position as regards Great Britain, and because it must saddle her population with largely increased taxation. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | It is injurious to her because she will lose the benefit of Imperial credit. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | It is injurious to her because the Bill is full of points of friction which must arise and develop between the two countries in the future, and it is injurious to her because it will perpetuate the religious and political differences which unfortunately are so acute amongst Irishmen by placing for ever the Unionist minority under the heels of the Nationalist majority. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | It is injurious to her because the Bill is full of points of friction which must arise and develop between the two countries in the future, and it is injurious to her because it will perpetuate the religious and political differences which unfortunately are so acute amongst Irishmen by placing for ever the Unionist minority under the heels of the Nationalist majority. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | I think it is injurious to England because of the retention of these forty-two Irish Members who will be able to tax Great Britain, make laws for her, settle her administration, and will only use their position as a means of extorting further concessions. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | I think it is injurious to England because it puts her under tribute of over £6,000,000 a year to Ireland. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | I believe it will be injurious to England because she will be betraying those who have been loyal to her in the past; and I believe that it will be fatal to he Empire because I have no doubt this Bill will only prove to be a stepping-stone towards the goal of complete separation. |
| LORD KILLANIN | Therefore it is that I hope your Lordships will bear with me while I endeavour as briefly as possible—and it is not easy to compress one's remarks on a subject which is so very large and complicated—to give some expression to some of the reasons why I have never believed, and do not believe to-night, in the policy of Home Rule for Leland, in either its necessity for Ireland or in its wisdom as a policy for Irishmen to pursue; and why, furthermore, I consider the special exemplification of Home Rule which we have in the shape of the Bill which is the subject matter before the House to-night is in itself most unjust and most unfair to Ireland, and is full of complications and anomalies and absurdities, and grounds for serious confusion and misunderstanding and trouble between the two projected Parliaments of these islands, which must, if the Bill becomes law, have 682 most injurious effects on every part of the Kingdom, and especially on Ireland. |
| THE EARL OF DURHAM | I submit that that would be injurious to public morals. |
| THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY | The series begins in 1870 with a Resolution by Mr. Watkin Williams, the grounds of which were that Establishment is unscriptural and that it is injurious to true religion. |
| VISCOUNT ST. ALDWYN | I believe that people are beginning more and more to realise that there is nothing in the establishment and endowment of the Church in Wales or elsewhere which acts in any way injuriously to the interest of the Free Churches. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE | I will not take up the time of the House by going further into these somewhat technical matters, but I would like to ask whether the noble Lord who will follow me can tell us that the postponement of the operation of the Act would really injuriously affect the interests of any of those who are concerned in this piece of legislation. |
| EARL CURZON or KEDLESTON | Three 89 weeks after he made that statement there was a meeting of the Assam branch of the Indian Tea Association held at Dibrugarh, and at this meeting it was stated that the association— "views the effect of this change with consternation and disquietude, as involving a regrettable breach of faith with those who stood by Government at a critical time, whilst the secrecy maintained, and making the King the mouthpiece of a political move, is one of its most discreditable features…The injurious effect of the administrative changes and the set-back to the whole Valley and the tea industry demands special attention." The last section of opinion I will refer to is the European officers of Government in India. |
| EARL CURZON or KEDLESTON | Therefore it seems to me that the financial policy which the Government of India are adopting in this respect is an unsound one and will be injurious to India. |
| EARL CURZON or KEDLESTON | I am confident that in so far as expenditure and care will avoid it, you will do nothing that will be in the least degree injurious to the health and comfort of those who are going to serve you in the new capital, but I do say that the selection of Delhi in the manner in which it has been made has been almost equally precipitate in its character, and I say, further, that you are going to place upon the shoulders of the Indian taxpayer a very heavy burden for which, so far as I know, no adequate justification has yet been given. |
| THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF DONOUGH MORE) | When an authority like the London County Council desire to deal with what they consider an insanitary dwelling-house or area—"nuisance" is the term used, and a 506 house that is a nuisance is defined, among other things, as premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health—they have to serve a notice on the owner, and the owner has this enormous advantage conferred upon him, that he is allowed to abate the nuisance himself. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY | I cannot see any object in going on with the Bill at this moment, and I hope that my noble friend Lord St. Aldwyn, who so clearly put the case before us and showed that the long notice in the Bill would be injurious to every class of agriculture, will persist in his Motion for the further adjournment of this debate. |
| THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE) | They come before Parliament annually and generally have a Tramway Bill on the stocks, and if as a result of strongly formed public opinion it is found that this clause acts injuriously to the public as a whole or to large individual interests, nothing will be easier than for Parliament to repeal the clause. |
| LORD ELLENBOROUGH | The mercantile marine officers, however, know that it would be injurious to the country if they did the same, and therefore I think they have a special claim to rely upon Parliament to improve their condition of life. |
| LORD MAC DONNELL OF SWINFORD | 1 think that such a policy if it had not been reversed was destined to be productive of the most injurious consequences to our rule in India. |
| THE DUKE OF BEDFORD | Sir John French, commenting on the Infantry training in 1909, stated that— "The absence of officers during company training when employed on signalling and mounted infantry duties was most injurious to efficiency." But the noble Viscount proposes to supply the Infantry of the Expeditionary Force with 600 non-Regular officers, strangers alike to their regiments as well as to their duties, without any knowledge of the interior economy of a battalion and absolutely- ignorant of what the discipline of the Regular Army means. |
| LORD HAVERSHAM | I think it is more that and what is to come which causes unrest among landlords and leads to the sale of estates than any Act which can be pointed to as having been injurious to the agricultural industry. |
| THE MARQUESS OF CREWE | If we were to make a proposition of this kind they would be tempted to use that favourite old argument of the "thin end of the wedge," because if you once begin advancing public moneys for these purposes I do not think you will be able to differentiate the particular case of the man whose rent is raised or who is given notice to quit when a farm is sold singly from a great many other cases in which the interests of the sitting tenant are injuriously affected. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY | Therefore I say that the driving of capital oat of this country must be most injurious to the industries of the country. |
| LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE | It is not, of course, suggested that all work underground is necessarily injurious. |
| LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE | Where work is carried on by men and women who are constantly moving about the circulation is kept going, and the work is not so injurious to the general morale and health of the workers as in the case of sedentary occupations. |
| LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE | It runs— "Any factory, workshop, or workplace which is not a factory subject to the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act relating to cleanliness, ventilation, and over-crowding, and…is not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless as far as practicable any gases, vapours, dust, or other impurities generated in the course of the work carried on therein that are a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health…shall he nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily under this Act." 816 This section makes it easy to deal with nuisances arising from special circumstances such as the use of an unventilated gas-stove, but it is not so satisfactory when dealing with insufficient means of Ventilation due to structural conditions. |
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