HOUSING OF WORKERS.
. MR. BURXS'S BILL.- • i BY lELEQIIAPH—rBESS ASSOCIATION —OOPYEIGIEt, (Sec. May. 13, 10.54 p.m.) London, May 13. . In tho House of r 'Commons - 'tho Housing and .introduced, by.,the President of the Lpcal .Government' Board, Mr. John Burns, was'read a second, timo without a division, though thero wero many complaints of tho Bill's want of lucidity.
Interviewed in February by a deputation of the Rural District t the President of tho Local /Joverhmenr Board, Mr'. ■Tohii Burns, said lie ' could not, bo expected to disclose the turns of his Housing of the Working Classes 'ißilly He. j'oalised jtliat J : some Rural District. Coiin&ils- l&d • done* 'excellent work, and that thy did.not always get,.tho credit and praise - theytßs§rved'.""On th'e v bthej hand, there were some Councils which did not do their work' as they" niiglit"do; The object' of liis Bill would bo .to stimulato the energetic Councils, and to compel the recalcitrant' Councils to a proper sense of their duty in order that they all might proceed in sanitary and hygienic matters on the lines of enlightened public opinion.*?.* ?::?■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 197, 14 May 1908, Page 7
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