LOCAL GOVERNMENT
BRITISH BEFORM BILL Australian Press Association—United Service. (Received 27th November, 3 p.m.) LONDON, 26th November. Tho Minister of Health, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, managed to. hold tho interest of the House of " Commons throughout a speech lasting 150 minutes, in moving the second reading of tho complicated 155-page Local Government Bill, generally known as the "Derating Bill," which is generally believed to have an important effect on the destinies of the Ministry, IVtr. Chamberlain insisted that the Bill was a major reform in the local government system which .had not been altered for forty years. "It does not constitute," he said, a donation to a needy rela-
tive; it is not a bribe to the ratepayers, but a long-delayed act of justice, which will remove at a stroke a. burden of twenty-four millions from the back of industry, three-quarters of it in the neediest areas. Certain underlying principles will ultimately reach the Statute Book as a courageous and comprehensive attempt to remove anomalies from tlio local government system."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 121, 27 November 1928, Page 11
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 121, 27 November 1928, Page 11
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