BRITISH POLITICS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 13411, 1 May 1909, Page 9

BRITISH POLITICS.

SOCIAL LEGISLATION.

United Press Association—By Electric Te'«sra.ph—-Copyright. LONDON, April 29. In the House of Commons tho Trade Boards Bill, providing against sweating, was read a second time, unopposed. The Rt. Hon. Alfred Lyttelton considered there was too much latitude allowed the Boards. Mr Balfour, in a sympathetic speech, said it was impossible to refuse to consider foreign competition. Mr Charles E. Hobhouse, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, informed Mr Richard Hazelton that the cost of oldage pensions in Ireland would be £2,330,000 annually.