LIBERAL POLICY.
AN IMMENSE FIELD OF SOCIAL REFORM PENSIONS AND POOR LAW. EDUCATION, LAND, AND LICENSING. (BI TELEGRAPH—mESS ASSOCIATION—COPTUIGHT.) (llec. September 28, 10.40 p.m.) London, September 28. Mr. Haldane, Secretary for War, in a speech at Ladybank, said that the old ago pousions Echome was only part of the much larger problem of poor law reform, which was confronting the Government. Different authorities ought to deal with the children, with preventable disease among the poor, and with the criminal element, which required to bo segregated ■ because it dragged down others. Those who sought the poorhouse through no fault of their own ought to be dealt with tenderly and kindly. There was great room for economy and improved efficiency, and all this machinery needed overhauling. Mr. Haldane added that education, land, and licensing, besides a multitude of problems clustering round those subjects, required attention before the community would bo in a healthy condition. The Liboral Government was advised by its critics to defer its pensions schema till the Poor Law Commission, still sitting, has reported.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 314, 29 September 1908, Page 7
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174LIBERAL POLICY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 314, 29 September 1908, Page 7
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