Clause 5, disagreed to, Clause 6. Amendment made, in page 4, line 43, by leaving out all the words from the beginning to the end of line 12, page 5, and by inserting the words : "(a) do not, within two months after the committee are established and a chairman is appointed, fix a minimum rate of wages which they are required to fix under this Act; or (b) fail to fix a minimum rate of wages in substitution for any such rate as aforesaid which, by cancellation or otherwise, has ceased to operate; or (e) by a resolution of the representative members of the committee request the Agricultural Wages Board to fix, cancel, or vary a minimum rate of wages "-(Mr. Buxton),-instead thereof. Another Amendment made, in page 5, line 16, by leaving out all the words from the word "committee" to the end of the Clause--(Mr. Buxton). Clause, as amended, agreed to. Clause 7. Amendment made, in page 5, lines 26 and 27, by leaving out the words "the Agricultural Wages Board," and by inserting the words "an agricultural wages committee ". (Mr. Buxton),--instead thereof. Other Amendments made, in page 5, line 28, by leaving out the words "or confirmed "; and in page 5, line 28, by leaving out all the words from the word "the" to the word "notify," in line 31, and by inserting the words. "committee shall reconsider the same and "-(Mr. Burton), -instead thereof. Clause, as amended, agreed to. Clause 8. Amendment made, in page 7, line 38, at the end, by inserting the words : 66 (11) Subject to any definition under this Act of the benefits or advantages which may be reckoned as payment of wages in cash and the value at which they are to be reckoned, and to any limitation or prohibition under this Act of the reckoning of benefits or advantages as payment of wages in lieu of cash, the court may in any proceedings under this Act reckon as a payment of wages such amount as in the opinion of the court represents the value of any benefits or advantages (not being benefits or advantages prohibited by law)"-(Mr. Buxton), Another Amendment made, in page 7, line 39, by leaving out sub-section (11)-(Mr. Buxton), Clause, as amended, agreed to. Clause 9. Amendment made, in page 8, line 7, by leaving out the word "generally "-(Mr. Buxton). Another Amendment made, in page 8, line 7, after the word "the," by inserting the word "following "-(Mr. Buxton). Another Amendment made, in page 8, line 8, by leaving out the words "of carrying this Act into effect, and in particular"-(Mr. Buxton). Another Amendment made, in page 8, lines 9 and 10, by leaving out the words "or the Agricultural Wages Board"-(Mr. Buxton). Other Amendments made. Another Amendment made, in page 8, line 29, at the end, by inserting the words : "(c) for requiring the Agricultural Wages Board, if so requested by a resolution of the representative members of a wages committee, to perform any duty or exercise any power of the committee under any regulation made under this section, or requiring the Board to perform any such duty which a committee has failed to perform within such time as may be prescribed by the regulation "-(Mr. Buxton). Another Amendment made, in page 8, line 30, by leaving out paragraph (c)—(Mr. Buxton). Another Amendment made, in page 8, line 37, by leaving out the words " Agricultural Wages Board or". (Mr. Buxton). Another Amendment made, in page 9, line 10, by leaving out sub-section (3)-(Mr. Burton). Clause, as amended, agreed to. Clause 10. Amendment made, in page 9, line 18, by leaving out all the words from the word "Act" to the end of sub-section -(Mr. Buxton). Clause, as amended, agreed to. Clause 11, agreed to. [Adjourned till To-morrow, at 11 o'clock. Thursday, 24th July, 1924. MEMBERS PRESENT: Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON in the Chair. Mr. Acland Mr. Blundell Mr. Buxton Sir Henry Cautley Mr. Emlyn-Jones Lieut.-Commander Fletcher Mr. Foot Mr. Frederick Gould Mr. Greenall Mr. David Grenfell Mr. Hobhouse Lieut.-Colonel Lane-Fox Major McLean Mr. William Martin Major the Marquess of Lieut.-Colonel Wheler Mr. Edward Wood AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL. Resolution of the House of 24th July read as follows: 66 Agricultural Wages [Regulation], That for carrying out the provisions of any Act of the present Session to provide for the regulation of wages of workers in agriculture and for purposes incidental thereto, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of the expenses of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under the said Act, and any expenses which are sanctioned by him of any agricultural wages board, or agricultural wages committee, or sub-committee established under the said Act, including any expenses incurred with such sanction by members of any such board, committee, or sub-committee in the performance of their duties, and any sums paid with such sanction to any such members by way of compensation for loss of time, in each case up to an amount approved by the Treasury, but not. exceeding in the aggregate the sum of seventy thousand pounds in any one year." Clause 12. Amendment made, in page 10, line 32, after the word "Treasury," by inserting the words "but not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of seventy thousand pounds in any one year "—(Mr. Buxton). Clause, as amended, agreed to. Clauses 13-16, agreed to. Clause 17. Amendment made, in page 12, line 9, by leaving out all the words from the word "county" to the end of line 12, and by inserting the words "shall be deemed to be included |