IRISH BOUNDARY.
COMMONS PASS BILL. OPPOSITION AMENDMENT DEFEATED. (ST CABLE—PRESS ASROCT ATTOX—COPTKIGHT; (reuteb's telegbams.) (Received October 3rd. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, October 2. The House of Commons rejected, by 2o< votes to 207, the Conservative amendment providing that the Commissioners adjust the Irish boundary without substantially altering the area of Northern Ireland as fixed under the Government of Ireland Act, 1020. The third reading of the Hill was then carried by 251 votes to 00. The chief interest emerging from the debate was the undertaking by Mr .T. IT. Thomas (Secretary of State for the Colonies) to consider sympathetically a suggestion by Mr Rcid (Conservative, Down) to compensate people for their property in cases where they would find themselves transferred through boundary changes, so that they might be enabled to m-ross the new border and re-establish themselves. THE COMMISSIONERSHIP. LORD CARSON SAID TO HAVE DECLINED. (Received October 3rd, 7A5 p.m.) LONDON, October 2. The "Daily Chronicle" understands that Mr Mac Donald offered the Boundary Commissionership to Lord Carson, but he declined.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18195, 4 October 1924, Page 13
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IRISH BOUNDARY.
Press, Volume LX, Issue 18195, 4 October 1924, Page 13
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