BRITISH DEVOLUTION.
TWO SCHEMES CONSIDERED. AGREEMENT ON THE POWERS. 'A' : .•■ b - y - : '\ ■:~<;\ss.: "■,-• ■■ »■■:■-, •.'■'■ '} ':i'' ■■'■■"■ K .'. : i ■ l r - REVIEW AFTER* FIVE YEARS.' By Telegraph-Preis Association-Copyright, j , , -',''■; (Received 7.85 p.m.) ':' C;, ' '. * Press Association, , LONDON, : : May" 13. The report ■of the Speakers Committee on the scheme ;< of devolution for the United Kingdom shows that the committee ! : was equally fl divided oh "•-.• two schemes, v but practically \ agreed !on the question of the powers to ,be devolved, financial relations and the judiciary. i ' ; : Under the heading, s "Powers Proposed to ibe Devolved," ( . are the regulation ;of international - commercial undertakings, order and good government, ■ ecclesiastical matters, agriculture, and land, the local judiciary and \ minor' legal ,matters, education, except for Oxford, Cambridge, and London Universities, ' local 1 government, and municipal undertakings, and public health, tt is proposed to transfer ;to the local' legislatures '• certain '' license'" 'duties, any deficit to be made up out of income tax, while the whole position will be subject to review after five years.f : • '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17471, 15 May 1920, Page 7
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