SHORT-LIVED BILL.
DROPPED WITHOUT DIVISION. Elec. Tel. Copyrigm— United Press Assn.l (Reuter's Telegram.) (Received May 1 20, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. In. the House of Lords, Lord Stanhope, in moving the second reading of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Bill, said that it largely modified the Act of 1914 and subsequent measures. He contended that foreigners ought not to be admitted while ex-ser-vice .men were walking streets unemployed. The Lord Chancellor declared, that the proposals were wholly unworkable. The Bill was unamendable. and inter aha would involve a revolution of the whole system existing as the result of repeated conferences between the Home 1 and Dominions Governments. It would involve a breach of understanding with the latter, and would constitute an attempt to legislate for the dominion within the territories, .which they undoubtedly would resent, and to which it Wa r£i wh ° ,1 y impossible to give effect. Th* Rill was dropped without division.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15221, 20 May 1920, Page 3
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