District Notes
NORTH EAST

Rent for War Trenches
The Shields Gazette 26/04/1929 carries the following:

"Rent for War Trenches.
Mr. Neil MacLean (Labour) is to ask the Secretary to the Treasurer in the Commons on Monday whether he can state the amounts that were charged to the British Government for rent and compensation for disturbance for trenches used by the British troops serving in France, and whether he can state how much has been paid respectively in those classifications."

Acknowledgments: Mike Mulhern.