NOTE ON CHOICE OF SUITABLE EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEES FOR JUVENILES.

Local Committees in connection with the Employment Exchanges to assist Juveniles in the choice of suitable employment may be set up either under the Ministry of Labour or the Board of Education. These Committees are known respectively as Juvenile Advisory Committees and Juvenile Employment Committees, and the two types of Committees are distributed in about equal numbers through the country. The larger industrial towns have for the most part set up the latter Committees under the powers granted to Local Education Authorities by the Education Act, 1921, Section 107. The Unemployment Insurance Act, 1923, requires that those Local Education Authorities who desire to continue the exercise of their powers respecting choice of suitable employment should also undertake the administration of Unemployment Benefit to persons under 18 years of age and consequently all who are willing to do so have been asked by the Board of Education to submit fresh arrangements appropriate to the new conditions. These Juvenile Employment Committees are supplied by the Schools with information concerning the boys and girls who desire employment, including a report on the physical capacity of the candidate furnished by the School Medical Officer.

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MINUTE OF APPOINTMENT.

I hereby appoint

The LORD CLINTON.

Mr. E. RICHARDS BOLTON, F.I.C.

Mr. E. G. HAYGARTH BROWN.

Dr. CHARLES CROWTHER, M.A., Ph.D.
Mr. THOMAS KYLE.

Mr. BRIAN S. MILLER.

Mr. GEORGE STUBBS, C.B.E., F.I.C.

Dr. J. F. TOCHER, D.Sc., F.I.C.

Dr. J. A. VOELCKER, M.A., Ph.D., B.Sc., F.I.C.

to be a Committee to enquire into the operations of the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906, to advise whether any, and if so what, amendments are necessary in order to render the execution of the Act more economical and effective, and to report accordingly; and I further appoint

The LORD CLINTON to be Chairman, and

Mr. H. J. JOHNS, of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries, to be the Secretary.

(Sgd.)

R. A. SANDERS.

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.

5th July, 1923.

REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1906.

The Sales for Agricultural Purposes Bill

PART II-THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIONS TO THE PRESENT ACT

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(a) Sampling on the farm for the purpose of criminal
proceedings

Need for co-operation of farmer.

Increase in numbers of samples

Samples submitted by private persons

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Reluctance of farmer to assist in sampling for

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criminal" purposes

Sampling for "" civil" purposes

(b) Particulars required by farmers to be included in

warranty.

(2) The Claims of the Merchant and Manufacturer

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Responsibility for goods consigned direct
Impracticability of sampling every parcel sold
Alleged need for extension of "Warranty Defence" 13
Sampling and analysis on loading

Criminal responsibility for goods that have passed
into other hands

Risk of loss of identity and change in composition.

3) The Case of the Importer

Restriction of trade

4) Difficulties in Administration

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(a) The taking of the sample

Uselessness, at present, of sampling except on farms
Extension of time limit for sampling

(b) The operation of the “ Warranty Defence "

Expense incurred in abortive prosecutions
Sampling in duplicate (against merchant and con-
signor)

(c) The need for further provision to deal with known
sources of adulteration

Recourse to the Merchandise Marks Acts

PART III-PROPOSALS TO REMOVE THE OBJECTIONS ΤΟ THE
PRESENT ACT

(1) Civil Provisions

Purchaser's claim against seller

Direct consignments

Contracting out in case of purchases by merchants

Need for criminal, in addition to civil, provisions
Scottish experience

Analytical Associations

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Publication of results of analyses

Implied contract with local authority

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Separation of bases of civil and criminal action
Invoice to be civil warranty only

Definition of "formal" and "informal" samples

(2) Criminal Provisions

(a) Failure to give invoice

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Possibility of replacing criminal by civil provisions
Principle of Corn Sales Act not applicable
Criminal provisions still necessary
Time limit for delivery of invoice

(b) False statement as to the composition of goods
Sampling at ports, factories, warehouses, stores

Prosecution only in respect of sample taken on
defendant's premises -

Application of name and address in the case of goods
ex-ship

Amendment of Schedules by regulations

(d) Time limit for sampling and notice to seller in the case
of criminal proceedings

(e) Question of criminal proceedings in respect of samples

taken on the farm

The cases for and against

Traders' objection

The basic objections

(f) Offences by merchants

Adulteration by middlemen infrequent
Routine sampling -

(g) Discrepancies between description and invoice

Method of enforcement

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