IMPERIAL POLITICS

Otago Witness, Issue 3098, 30 July 1913, Page 27

IMPERIAL POLITICS

HOME RULE AND DISESTABLISHMENT. LONDON, July 22. The House of Lords rejected the Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill by 242 to 48. July 23. The Government lias assured its supporters that, notwithstanding the recent division in the House of Lords, there will be neither a dissolution nor a referendum on the Home Rule and Welsh Church Disestablishment Bills. July 25. The House of Lords rejected the Plural Voting Bill by 156 votes to 42. EDUCATION BILL. LONDON, July 23. In introducing a one-clause Education Bill the President of the Board of Education (Mr Pease) outlined the Government’s intentions for a complete Education Bill in 1914. It would, he said, prove costly to do for secondary education what Mr Forster’s Bill in iB7O did for elementary. The new measure would not affect the elementary system nor voluntary schools, but it would provide a broad and smooth road from the elementary school to the university, and remove the grievances of Nonconformists in regard to the single schools area, and would compel the local authorities to provide creches, also technical and secondary schools, baths, and playing fields, meals for poor children, and to grant special holidays. It would also remove the ration limitation, and place the local authorities in a sound financial position. The Government would grant a substantial subsidy to enable them to carry out the new scheme.