BRITISH POOR LAW
RADICAL ALTERATIONS. PROPOSED IN ADMINISTRATION SIMPLIFYING THE WORK. BY CABLE —Pit ESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Dec. 8, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Dee. 7. Proposals are being circulated among local authorities through-out the country by the Minister for Health, under which county councils will absorb the functions of' the existing poor law authorities. This step is a- further phase in the process of revolutionising and simplifying the administration of the law and the lopping off of historic anomalies. The scheme was inaugurated by Lord Birkenhead, whose radical revision of property daw comes into operation on .January Ist next. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 December 1925, Page 5
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