LIQUOR CONTROL.
BILL BEFORE LORDS. SECOND READING DEFEATED. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT •LONDON, July 8. The House of Lords, by 165 votes to 50, defeated, the second reading of the Bishop of Oxford’s Popular Control of Liquor Bill, which gives ratepayers the choice of voting no change, pubHc control, or prohibition. Lord Parmoor said the Government supported the second reading in order that the Bill could be referred to a standing committee. The Primate and all the bishops supported the Bill, except the Bishop of Durham (the Rt. Rev. Hensley Henson), who caused a sensation in the House by a vehement attack on the Bill on the ground that it enshrined the thoroughly unsound principle of prohibition and treated the trade unfairly in exacting compensation methods, which was hypocritical and disguised confiscation. In attacking his fellow bishops, he warned the Church of the danger of creating sham sins. The Bishop of Durham’s vigorous outburst moved the Conservatives to unwonted enthusiastic applause. The Bishop of St. Albans said that as long as the Rt. Rev. Hensley Henson graced the benches episcopal unity was impossible.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 July 1924, Page 5
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182LIQUOR CONTROL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 July 1924, Page 5
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