DEVELOPMENT BILL.
UPPER HOUSE DOES' NOT INSIST ON ITS \ AMENDMENTS. BUT REPUDIATES PRECEDENT. (fly Telenraph.-Prcsa Association -Cojyrißht.) (Eec. December 2, 7.55 a.m.) London, December 2. At the instance of the Unionist Leader, Lord Lansdowne, tho Honso of Lords resolved: That while not insisting upon its amendments in tho Development Bill, the Houso of Lords docs not accept the reasons offered by tho House of Commons, and does not consent to tho grounds of tho said reasons being drawn into a precedent, as tho Bill involves questions of policy in which both Houses are concerned, and with which the Houso of Lords has heretofore been accustomed to deal. [Tho HoiiEo of Lords mado a number of amendments to the Devejopment Bill in tho direction of decreasing tho bureaucratic powers under whioh the funds are to bo administered. Despite Lord Crowo's argument that tho landlords with frontages on the new motor roads would reap tho increment, tho Lords deleted tho words allowing tho board to acquiro tho land on either sido of tho roads.l
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 680, 3 December 1909, Page 7
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172DEVELOPMENT BILL. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 680, 3 December 1909, Page 7
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