BRITISH POLITICS.
WORKHOUSE POOR/. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFYRIGHT (Rec. April o, 4.15 p.m.) London, April 4. In the House of Commons, tho Secretary for Ireland, Mr. Birrell, intimated that there was a prospect of thV'Government legislating next year oil the lines of a Bill introduced by. Captain/Craig," UnionisVmember for East Down, to distribute the workhouse poor of the country' among institutions such as almshouses, sanatoria, ; and labour houses, in accordance ;with"tho report of a Vice-Regal Commission in 1906. Captain Craig's Bill was thereupon refused a second reading. II . . i • The Coroner's Inquests Bill, abolishing tho compulsory viewing of bodies tiy 'juries, was read a second time in , the House of Commons. ■ ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 165, 6 April 1908, Page 7
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