IRISH BILL CARRIED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 October 1924, Page 5

IRISH BILL CARRIED.

■ UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT. BY GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Oct. 2. In the Commons an unexpected development of the political situation occurred, owing to the tabling of a Liberal amendment in the name of Sir John Simon, to the Conservative vote of censure, proposing the appointment of a select committee to investigate and repoi*t upon the circumstances leading to the withdrawal of the Workers’ : Weekly proceedings. Sir John w 7 as one of the Government’s foremost critics when the subject was discussed in the House of Commons on September 9. The House rejected, by 257 votes to 207, the Conservative amendment providing that the Commissioners adjust the Irish boundary without substantially altering* the area of Northern Ireland, as fixed under the Government -of Ireland .Act, 1920. The third reading was then carried by 251 to 99. The chief interest emerging from the debate urns an undertaking by Mr. J. H. Thomas (Colonial Secretary) to consider sympathetically the suggestion by an Ulsterman (Mr. Reid) to compensate neople for property m those cases where they' find themselves transferred through boundary changes, so that they may be enabled to recross the new’ border and re-establish themselves. The Daily Chronicle understands that Mr. MacDonald (Premier) Jias offered the boundary commissioner-ship to Lord Carson, but he declined.