IMPERIAL POLITICS.
EDUCATION AND PENSIONS.
THE GOVERNMENT PRO-
GRAMME
By Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright
(Received January 17. 1.12 a.m.)
London, January 16. In the course of a speech at Lancaster. Mr. H. H. Asquith (Chancellor of the Exchequer) said the price of coal had risen owing to the enormous industrial activity, and the price of bread had advanced because of the temporary shortage in the world's harvest.
Speaking of the work for the coming session he said that the Education Bill would be short and simple.
The old age pension system must be built up gradually with due regard to the country's financial exigencies, and as far as possible : «- would be derived from taxation. It must be a scheme to which all classes, including the workers, would make a just and adequate contribution, and upon those lines the Government intended to proceed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13649, 17 January 1908, Page 5
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