IRISH LAND BILL.
THE ELECTIVE PRINCIPLE. UNIONISTS AND THE LEAGUE. LONDON, August 26. In the House of Commons last night a further batch of the Irish Land Bill clauses was carried, according to the closure time-table. ;.'■;, The chief discussion' related to the incorporation of, the reconstituted.Congested Districts Boards. Unionists strenuously resisted, but in I vain, the introduction of the elective element, which they contended would soon be [ under the guidance of the league. They added that the distribution of land in face of the conflicting claims of owners of estates and the landless required cool ' heads, undisturbed by. focal pressure? ."* j Mr T. ,W>"'Russell (Eiberal:member fpr Tyrone South) and Mr Birrell(Chief Secretary; for Ireiand) replied that the elected members proved a tower of strength to '■' the Department --pf- Agriculture, and the present problem was only solvable,, with the.:/ fupDort p* popular opinion* '"j " ; "i; T -f ■, ■$■ ■' '.- ' '-. ,1
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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 204, 27 August 1909, Page 5
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147IRISH LAND BILL. Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 204, 27 August 1909, Page 5
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