This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1917. 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.
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| Mr. DILLON | : I desire to call attention to the very important matter which is set forth in the Resolution of which I have given notice—["That the greatly increased stringency of the censorship which has come into force during the last six months, the one-sided and unfair method in which the censorship is applied, and the practice of directing the Press as to the views and opinions which they should cultivate amongst their readers, are injurious to the State and ought to be discontinued."]—namely, the present administration of the censorship, which I declare has been greatly increased in stringency, which has been also characterised by a one-sided and unfair method of administration, and appears to have for its object the cultivation of certain views by withholding one class of information and fostering other information calculated to cultivate the view which the Government desire should be expressed. |
| Sir G. CAVE | : It was absolutely untrue and it was very injurious to us in the conduct of the War. |
| Sir G. CAVE | We are bound to accept the statement of the Minister who tells us that to give either the names or the number of ships which are attacked or sunk or to give the tonnage or other information would be injurious to the interests of the country. |
| Mr. SALTER | He said: "It seems to me, and it seems to all my colleagues—although I do not profess for a moment that we are in agreement on all these points as to whom ought or ought not to be enfranchised—that nothing would be more injurious to the beat interests of the country, nothing more damaging to the prosecution of the War, nothing more fatal to the concentration of the national effort, than that the floodgates should be opened on all those vast, complicated questions of the franchise, with an infinite multiplicity of claimants, each of whom can make a perfectly plausible if not irresistible case for themselves, and that at this stage of the War that that should be thrown on the floor of the House of Commons, and into the arena of public discussion outside, and that we should he diverted from that which ought to be our supreme and sole purpose to what is practically a review of the whole basis of our electoral constitution."—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th August, 1916, col. |
| Colonel Lord HENRY CAVENDISH-BENTINCK | asked the Minister of Munitions whether he is aware of the delay in issuing permits to build the necessary mess-room and cloak-room accommodation in factories; and whether, seeing that these delays tend not only to reduce out put, but are injurious to the health and comfort of the workers, he proposes to take any action in the matter? |
| Mr. CHURCHILL | If it was to go forward that officers are really being allowed to resign in order to escape a court-martial for an attack of nerves in face of the enemy it would be most injurious, and I hope the Under-Secretary will take an opportunity of correcting that view. |
| Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL | The people in this Department know absolutely nothing about the matter, and a man goes to them and says, "We have not the facilities for this and that." They know nothing of what actually exists and probably care less, for they do not want the trouble, and all this is most injurious to the well-being of the commercial community. |
| Mr. MASON | If anyone either falsely or otherwise introduce to billets or suggests to the local committee that there are billets available, or in any way acts in an injurious manner, that person is subject to a fine of £100. |
| Mr. McKENNA | Consequently, this Clause operates injuriously to him if he uses his ship. |
| Mr. McKENNA | The natural desire to avoid and to take away these extravagant profits will not stop here, and I would appeal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he wishes to deal specially with this trade, that it should be by a more considered scheme, which will really hit the evil at which it aims, and not by a proposal which, in my judgment, must be injurious, and which will not, in fact, raise very much revenue. |
| Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK | Hence the best hours of work, suited for peace times, are in every case considerably shorter than those mentioned, though the principle of graduating the number of hours of labour to the type of work performed still holds with undiminished force." That means that the hours of work I have mentioned are injurious to the health of the great mass of the workers, and, beyond that, that it is a pure waste of money. |
| Sir F. SMITH | It may be that some of those officers were in 2160 possession of documents which they were entitled in any process of the criminal law, or any procedure before a court-martial, to say: "I am not compelled to produce these documents, and I will not produce them in any Court of law." They would be upheld in that refusal by Parliament—and, I think, rightly—failing that the Commission, in regard to the public interest was acting considerately, for it would be very unfortunate if any officer or other person was prevented from producing a document helpful to the inquiry by apprehension that its production might hereafter be injurious to him. |
| Mr. ASQUITH | Even if it were fair, all this retrospection is apt to have an injurious effect on the conduct of the War, to damp the spirit, and even to cripple the initiation of those who are serving the State. |
| Mr. JOHN REDMOND | In 476 my opinion the effect will be most injurious to the best interests of the Empire. |
| Mr. GINNELL | We helped them to carry many a Budget, and many another Bill, highly injurious and highly prejudicial to Ireland—[Mr. BILLING: "And to England!"]—in the hope that when they came to tackle the Irish problem they would do it decently, and fulfil their own pledges. |
| Mr. SHIRLEY BENN | Is it in order for an hon. Member of this House to make statements I such as the hon. Member has just made, 653 where he has no proof to give, and to circulate a story that may be very injurious to the welfare of our country? |
| Sir C. HOBHOUSE | This Ministry is going to affect trades injuriously. |
| Sir G. CAVE | I do not say that if the Director decided in favour of exemption and the Army Council felt that the release of those men was injurious to the country, the decision of the mediator would be final, but it is desired that in the first instance the Director-General of National Service should act as mediator so that these differences may be adjusted. |
| Mr. DILLON | : Do I understand that the Army Council are the supreme judges of what is or is not injurious to the country 989 or not? |
| Sir J. RANDLES | I believe that if we divide on questions of this kind, some day we may find ourselves, without intending it, going into the Lobbies on some question that is of very trifling importance as compared with the whole issue of the War, and giving a vote which will be really injurious in the eyes not only of our own people at home, but of our Allies and our great Dominions overseas. |
| Mr. DENNISS | If the duty were intended to be permanent and were made permanent by the Resolution to-night, I should certainly vote against the Government, because even in time of war one is justified in voting against the Government if they introduce a permanent tax and put on record a permanent principle which is 1223 contrary to all the principles one professes and which one believes is injurious to his own country and in the long run to India itself, the country on whose behalf it is proposed. |
| Mr. CHURCHILL | I think the House will be laying down an altogether injurious rule for the conduct of the War if it sought to hamper responsibility in great matters by over insistence upon the number of persons to be consulted. |
| Mr. EUGENE WASON | asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has received petitions from the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce, the Aberdeen Fish Trade Association, and the Alloa fishermen, pointing out the injurious effects that the prepayment of the railway carriage on fish would have on the fishing industry throughout the country; whether a largely attended deputation of representatives of the fishing industry attended last Wednesday, the 14th, a meeting of the Railway Executive Committee; whether he has received any reply from that body as to the course of action they intend to pursue: and what steps he proposes to take? |
| VISCOUNT CHAPLIN | It is a premium on bad farming, and is most injurious in the way in which it will diminish what the good farmer would have got under the Bill as it was originally proposed. |
| THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (LORD ISLINGTON) | Mrs. Besant was restricted in her liberty by the Government of Madras in the middle of the month of June because after due consideration it was agreed that the inflammatory methods pursued by her in her advocacy of Home Rule were injurious to public tranquility in that part of India for which the Madras Government were responsible. |
| THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON) said | Behind every speech, although couched in different language and expressing sometimes different attitudes towards the ease, there has lurked the deep-seated conviction that there does exist a scandal, that this scandal is injurious to the standards of public life in this country, and that it would be desirable—if not in the exact form suggested by the speakers who have 866 addressed us, at any rate in some form—to know that the Government mean, so far as their responsibility is concerned, to set their face against the continued existence of such a scandal. |
| THE JOINT PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (THE DCKE OF MARLBOROUGH) | Much of the imported glucose comes from the United States; and a Committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences some years ago to ascertain whether there is any danger attending the use of glucose as food reported, among other things, that— "The processes which it (the manufacture of starch sugar-glucose) employs at the present time are unobjectionable in their character and leave the product uncontaminated; and the starch sugar 957 (glucose) thus made is of exceptional purity and contains no injurious substances." The Board of Agriculture suggests that inasmuch as glucose is sold by retail tradesmen for the purposes of human food it comes within the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, and is consequently subject to public examination by analysts throughout the country. |
| THE JOINT PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (THE DCKE OF MARLBOROUGH) | The issue of saccharine "under medical directions" does not imply that it is itself harmful; but, on the contrary, that it is useful as a substitute for cane sugar, which, as is well known, is injurious to persons suffering from diabetes and other complaints. |
| EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON | I would submit to you that if any one of your Lordships were in the position of the Minister responsible for the carrying out of law and order in Ireland, the test that he would apply in the case of each action or incident would be this Is the action with which I am called upon to deal really injurious to the public safety; is it in any sense a real menace to the State? |
| THE EARL OF HALSBURY | In so doing I shall be voting for a Bill which I believe to be a bad Bill and a mischievous Bill in its effects hereafter; but I believe it would be more mischievous and more injurious to this country if at this time and in these exigencies it could be said that the Government must resign. |
| Sir G. CAVE | With regard to the contents of the letter, it no doubt includes statements which are calculated to mislead and to be injurious to this country; but I doubt whether the American public would in fact attach any importance to the letter, and I do not think that a prosecution on this ground is desirable. |
| Mr. D. MILLAR | The Food Controller pointed out what would 671 be the favourable effect of this restriction on meat and milk production so far as the agriculturist is concerned, and he took the opportunity of again disputing the truth of many statements which have been made by those associated with the brewing trade—that any reduction would have an indirect injurious effect on the foodstuffs used by agriculturists. |
| Mr. D. MILLAR | I think the House ought to take note of the fact that in his opinion, instead of having an injurious effect, exactly the opposite would be the case. |
| Mr. DILLON | Does the hon. Gentleman for one moment contend, or is he prepared to contend, that it would be injurious to the public interest, and giving to the enemy dangerous information, to let us know what are the number of clerks attached to these various Departments? |
| Mr. CHURCHILL | I listened with great attention, in common with all the rest of the House, to the full account which my right hon. Friend has given of the various and numerous palliative and defensive measures which are being adopted by the Admiralty to minimise and, if possible, restrict within limits which are not injurious the submarine attacks of the enemy. |
| The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Bonar Law) | But is it not obvious that at the trial the very motives and facts which the Government and the Executive of the country know would have to be brought to light, and it would be quite as injurious to mention them in the trial as in the House of Commons itself? |
| Sir F. BANBURY | At the present time, when enormous contracts are being entered into without that due care and regard for economy which ought to distinguish the Members of the Government who make those contracts to pass a Sub-section like this, unless the explanation is much more satisfactory than that we have already had, would, I venture to say, be very injurious to the true interests of the nation. |
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