THE GUILLOTINE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 537, 18 June 1909, Page 7

THE GUILLOTINE.

IRISH LAND AND HOUSING BIKES. (By Tclegraph.-Prezs Assoohxtion.-Oopyrieht.l . (Rec. Juno 17, 6.35 p.m.) London, Jane VI. * Tho Hous« of Commons carried resolutiom moved by the Prime Minister, Mr." Aixjuitk, applying the guillotine (closure by cenjpari. ments) to tho disouseion. on the Irish Land Act Amendment Bill (Mr. and tho Housing and Town • Planning Bill (Mr Burns). TEN PER CENT. OF ENGLISH HOMES , INSANITARY. ! u "Th« primary aim. of, the Housing and Town i 1 T r ' G ' E »w)'is to (stamp at tho other* OM - cnd and to savo tho suburb

Town-pianning is, put forward to Bare tip " i b J rcction und more stria, gent snnitaiy regnlahonß aro laid down ai ■®m? eans "9*,lohveranoo from slumdum, . ■ • J-ne need for a more drustio dealing with «lum property is made .clear by the fact thai l o.t.muU shows some 708,000 dwolKnp r j! s ' either insanitary or ovororowdfid WOt ' d6 ' 10 '* r oent- of tIThZTo. \l a , m f nß<yi t0 I'lWio health. . 2 ■ cel1 " 16 fifiurea reveslofl ST^nT 1 ? 6 '., 11 * 1 !!* m "''"crowded ten*. r]al;>t° D of °tC\^k 0t Mr The principal defect in the Biu'liee'in its failure Co provide for the better adaptation of existing houses. In many quarters th© hnueu Problem could be polved simply by adaptlm? deserted middle-class houses to the a TH working-class tenements. Tto very SJX Lwi ' TV ro?n 6lum <fom, could not be hol„pod m a better way than br tha flats 610n ° f larE6 hous " in "° . ftaK*; " ie town-planning provisions'of the ln BriH.S f"? , h ?. ve now principle !? S?. legislation. It is not new in practice h ? W6TOr - Private oxLSplm 3 S^Lt° Wn ~ P £ lUU " fi: laTe been springing up In many quarters m recent yoars. The incMv has coae f rom tho ■ Bourneville and Port Sunlight; from th^T«» rS;|S?f=to^ f' 1 grounds must, lie considered boaSSStSsS^fc BrapfepaAfr' i i >1 .v. an S Ql ' can b* avoided hor* if tlrn In au thontieß G* vt> offect to the whole of