MORE ADVERSE VOTES.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
MINISTER ACCEPTS DECISIONS,
LONDON, July 21. The Government’s score of defeats now totals ten, after the passage of two adverse votes in the committee stage of the Housing Bill in the House of Commons. Firstly, a Liberal amendment was passed bv 201 votes to 155, and secondly a Labour amendment, which the Government accepted, was rejected by 137 to 119. In both cases, however, Mr Wheatley, Minister of Health, accepted the decision of the House. In the course of the debate Mr Wheatley, to everyone's surprise, announced that he had reached a virtual agreement with the Builders’ Union regarding the provision of skilled workers. He outlined his scheme for speeding up the process .of apprenticeship by the enlistment of the assistance of technical schools’ evening classes and also the promotion of semi-skilled labourers.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1075, 23 July 1924, Page 5
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