This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1922. 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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| Dr. MURRAY | asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has personally read the judgment given by the official referee in regard to the cream of tartar, tartaric acid, and citric acid complaints under the Safeguarding of Industries Act; whether he is aware that this case occupied nine hearings, involving the expenditure of many thousands of pounds, part of which will fall upon the taxpayers of the country; whether the santonine case, which was heard last December, was also a very protracted one; and whether he will take steps whereby the representatives of the chief interested parties should be called together in conference, with a view to eliminating the necessity for further costly proceedings which, apart from the expenditure of time and money, operate very injuriously upon the business of the country. |
| Mr. KILEY | asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) the dates when application was made to him with respect to the imposition of a duty of 33⅓ per cent., under Part II of the Safeguarding of Industries Act, on brush ware, lace goods, silk goods, and glass bottles; and if he is aware that the prolonged time occupied by his Department in either accepting or refusing such applications are injurious to the trades concerned, as in most cases the articles are raw materials for other trades, for which estimates and prices have to be quoted months in advance; if he appreciates the difficult position which many firms are placed in owing to the uncertainties as to whether a tariff will be imposed or not on these raw materials; (2) whether, in view of the uncertainty prevailing in trade circles as to decisions which are likely to be arrived at in connection with applications made for the imposition of a duty of 33⅓ per cent. |
| THE EARL OF DESART | No person then foresaw that the importation of Canadian cattle could affect injuriously the position of the Irish breeders. |
| LORD PHILLIMORE | Section 6 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1875, says— "No person shall sell to the prejudice of the purchaser any article of food or any drug which is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by such purchaser, under a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds; provided that an offence shall not be deemed to be committed under this section in the following cases; that is to say, 412 "(1) Where any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has been added to the food or drug because the same is required for the production or preparation thereof as an article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage or consumption, and not fraudulently to increase the bulk, weight, or measure of the food or drug, or conceal the inferior quality thereof." There are also other provisos which I do not think affect this case. |
| LORD PHILLIMORE | But if it is any ingredient which is injurious he is ultimately hit by that section, and it really cannot be necessary for a baker to put a label on his cake saying: "Pursuant to the Bread Act, 1922, I have put in some form of yeast to make my cake a little lighter." I think the noble Earl's Amendment is really unnecessary, and one knows at this stage of the session that unnecessary Amendments are not desirable. |
| THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (THE EARL OF ANCASTER) | On the other hand, we must consider our own people a little and, though I am no soldier, I understand that 834 no Division in the whole of the Armies of the British Empire bore a better name and gave batter service to the country than the 51st which, I believe, was a Highland Division, recruited from these small crofters and people in the North, who, on the Report of this Commission, are very likely to be injuriously affected by the lifting of this embargo. |
| LORD BUCKMASTER | The word of an English Government has been pledged, and, I care not how injurious it may be, we must carry out that pledge, unless the persons whom we have promised will release us from our bond. |
| THE MARQUESS OF CREWE | Mr. Meighen went on— "From the beginning of this imposition until this day, the Canadian Government have spared no effort; it has consistently, under one Prime Minister and the next, pressed for the removal of it, on the ground not that we wish to interfere with any domestic regulations of the United Kingdom, but on the ground that this embargo constitutes a stigma which is unjust and injurious to Canadian stock, and to its reputation through- 845 out the world, and that it should be removed whether or not there be some other protective or other measure installed in its place." From that one is entitled to believe that the Canadian Government never have asked, and do not now ask, for the unrestricted importation of all cattle, and it, is that fact, which I do not think can be disputed by anybody, which enables me to look with favour and hopefulness on the Amendment proposed by my noble friend, Lord Long. |
| Mr. NAYLOR | These are facts which our men know, and I suggest to the Government that they ought to harmonise the policies of their various Departments in such a way that they shall not act obviously unfairly and injuriously to the trade of the country. |
| Mr. PRETYMAN | In Scotland the position is even worse, as far as landowners are concerned, than it is in England, because in Scotland the landowner bears one-half of the rates as well as the whole burden of taxation, and if I had time to quote the figures put forward by the Scottish Landowners' Association, they would show a state of things which is unjust to the individual, injurious to the whole agricultural industry and ruinous from the point of view of national finance. |
| Mr. HARMSWORTH | : Representations have been addressed to the Portuguese Government calling attention to the injurious effect which their legislation will have on British shipping. |
| Mr. JELLETT | I opposed the ratification of this Treaty because I knew that it would be injurious to the welfare of Ireland and would constitute a serious danger to the security of the British Empire. |
| LORD ISLINGTON | I am dealing for the moment with the case that he made some months ago when he was denouncing the Coalition, and I agree with him when he said that a Coalition is both an invertebrate and undefined body, and while it is necessary for war it is useless—I do not think he added this, but my own experience tempts me to add "injurious"—in times of 65 peace. |
| LORD ISLINGTON | "Khaki" Elections, as you know, have generally proved injurious to the public interest, and this was certainly no exception. |
| LORD ISLINGTON | It has caused an injurious inversion of the principles of our democratic Constitution. |
| LORD ISLINGTON | Although it might be of a transitory assistance to trade, it would obviously be very injurious to the main object that His Majesty's Government must have in view and which all British interests are seeking to-day—namely, the termination of the war between Greece and Turkey at the earliest possible date. |
| LORD ISLINGTON | This has undoubtedly had a very injurious effect upon our interests throughout the Continent of Asia. |
| LORD ISLINGTON | There is no disguising the fact that so long as anything in the nature of a suspicion arises amongst those people that an undue bias is being shown in favour of a country that is at present at war with Turkey, it must have a correspondingly 279 injurious influence upon our interests. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | Does not the House think it is likely that he may have great difficulty in controlling that minority, that he may be obliged to yield to them in ninny ways, and that it is very possible that, although they may not direct their energies against this country, they may take the opportunity of passing legislation highly injurious to those who, in the past, have been the friends of England in Ireland? |
| VISCOUNT ULLSWATER | If, however, it means that it is only to be an instruction to our own Government not to press certain Articles of the Treaties which, in our judgment, act injuriously and harshly and require no assent from our former enemies before revision, then I should certainly warmly welcome and accept the Resolution. |
| VISCOUNT FINLAY | That object may be gathered from the first clause of the Bill which gives power to local authorities— 243 "to make byelaws for regulating, restricting or preventing the exhibition of advertisements in such places, in such manner and by such means as to— (a) affect injuriously the amenities or disfigure the aspect of a town, village or street, or of any historic or public building or monument or any place frequented by the public on account of its beauty or historic interest; or (b) disfigure the aspect of landscape or interfere with the view of rural scenery from a road or railway, or from any public place or water." No one can see the advertisements by which places of great beauty are often disfigured without thinking that this Bill has a most commendable object, and, in my view, that object could not be stated in simpler terms than in the clause to which I have just referred. |
| THE EARL OF SELBORNE | He must observe any pledges which his predecessors gave, and, if he departs from those pledges, he must, as my noble friend behind me said, ask Parliament to compensate those who may be injuriously affected thereby. |
| LORD TREOWEN | For that reason; much as I sympathise with the position of the officers who have been referred to, I should hesitate very much to support the noble Duke in the Division Lobby, because I feel that the terms of this Motion, if carried into effect, would be injurious to the Territorial Associations. |
| THE EARL OF ANCASTER | Now that he has told me that the object of his Amendment is to get me to give an explanation of this compensation clause, I would point out that the subsection proposed to be left out is, in substance, a reproduction of the provision of the Corn Production Acts which gives a right of compensation to persons injuriously affected by their land being occupied under the Defence of the Realm Act. |
| VISCOUNT LONG OF WRAXALL | It touches the whole system of local government, and the Amendment will not injuriously affect his Bill. |
| LORD NEWTON | It has been pointed out in the Report that the refusal of the German Government to recognise full responsibility is highly injurious to our financial reputation, because German nationals are ready to believe that their property has been confiscated. |
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