(WELSH DISEMOWMENT.
COMPENSATION FOR TITHES. SHARP DEBATE IN COMMONS. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Axis. 7, The House of Commons, by 182 votes to 37, read a second time the Bill granting £1,000,000 to Welsh local authorities for tithe commutation under the 1914 Church Disendowment Act. The tithe, which •was worth an average of £77 in 1914 and has risen owing to war influence to £123, will probably be worth £136 next year when the Act operates. Spirited opposition was displayed. Lord Hugh Cecil accused Mr. Bonar Las? and the Unionist Ministers of betraying the Church, Lord Robert Cecil and other Unionists denounced disendowment as robbery. The former said he had quitted the Government because the Premier's pledge on the matter was not satisfactory. Compromise on such a, subject was cowardice.
Mr. Bona? Law said that the Bill steered a middle course, as befitted 3 coalition Government representing the mass of the nation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17234, 9 August 1919, Page 9
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