WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.
COMMUTING THE TITHES. DENOUNCED AS ROBBERY. (Received 9.10 a.m.)' LONDON, August 7. The House of Commons, by 182 votes to 3/, read a second time the bill granting a million pounds to Welsh local authorities for tithe commutation under the 1914 Church Disendowment Act. The tithe, which was worth an average of £ii in 1914 and has risen owing to war influence to f 123, will probably be worth £136 next year when the Act operates. Spirited opposition was displayed. Lord Hugh Cecil accused Mr Bonar Law and Unionist Ministers of betraying the Church. " Lord Robert Cecil and other Unionists denounced disendowment as robbery. He had quitted the Government because the Premier's pledge on the matter was not satisfactory. Compromise on such a subject was cowardice. Mr. Bonar Law said that the bill steered a middle course, as befitted a coalition Government representing the mass of the nation.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 187, 8 August 1919, Page 5
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