TENTH DEFEAT
BRITISH LABOUR GOVERNMENT. THE HOUSING BILL. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 21. The Government’s score of defeats totals ten after the passage of two adverse votes in the committee stage of the Housing Bill in the House of Commons. A Liberal amendment- was passed by 201. votes to 155, and a Labour amendment, which the Government, accepted, was rejected by 137 votes to 119. In both cases, however, the Minister for Health (Mr John Wheatley) accepted the decision of the House. In the course of the debate Mr Wheatley, to everybody’s surprise, announced a virtual agreement with the Builders’ Union regarding the provision.of skilled workers. He outlined a scheme of speeding-up of apprenticeship by the enlistment of the assistance of technical schools ’ evening classes, and the promotion of semiskilled labourers.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 July 1924, Page 5
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