DEVOLUTION SCHEMES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXXI, Issue LXXXI, 15 May 1920, Page 5

DEVOLUTION SCHEMES

PARIS, May 13

The report of the Speaker's Committee on devolution shows the committee is equally divided on two schemes, hut practically agreed on the question of the powers to be devolved on financial relations and judiciary. Under the heading "powers proposed to he devolved" are regulations of international commercial undertakings, order and good movement, ecclesiastical matters, agriculture and land, local judiciary and minor legal matters, education (except Oxford, Cambridge and London Universities), local government and municipal undertakings, and public health. It is proposed to transfer to local legislatures a certain license of duties. Any deficit is to be made up out of income tax, while the whole position will be subject to review after

five yearn