EDUCATION BILL.
SECOND READING. LIMITS OF COMPROMISE. THE FUNDAMENTALS MUST NOT BE SURRENDERED. BY TELEGRAPH —PRI!S3 ASSOCIATION—COPTIUGIIT. (Rec. May 21, 0.19 p.m.) London, May 21. In tho House of Commons the Government's Education Bill passed its second reading.' Tho divisirfn resulted as under:— For the sononcl reading ... 270 Against ... ... 205 Majority 65 Tho'minority included 64 Nationalists, and Messrs. S. M. Samuel (Liberal), C. J. O'Donnell (Liberal), D. A. Thomas (Liberal), F. W. Jowett -(Labour), J. T. Macpherson (Labour), J. O'Grady' (Labour), and A. V. Grayson (Socialist). Although tho Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, was more conciliatory than other Ministers, Mr. .Balfour, Leader of tho Opposition, was unable to elicit more than a promise that tho Government would bo willling to consider suggestions compatiblo with tho fundamental principles of the Bill. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 204, 22 May 1908, Page 7
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129EDUCATION BILL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 204, 22 May 1908, Page 7
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