DIVISION DEFERRED
BRITISH MINES BILL REDRAFTING PLANNED (British Official Wiroloss.) ltecd. 10 a.m. RUGBY, May 28. An announcement arising out ot the decision of the Government not to go to a division on the second reading of the Coal Mines Bill after opposition had developed on both sides of the House to amendments which the Government indicated it would introduce in the committee stage, was made by the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in the House of Commons.
Mr. Baldwin said the Government held by the principles of the, bill, but decided it must be postponed till the autumn as sufficient time would not ho available, after the recess, in the heavy Parliamentary timetable. The \~lovor:uii<mt would make use of the interval to redraft the bill, which would inejude changes announced in the debate on the second reading.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19360530.2.51
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 5
Word Count
138DIVISION DEFERRED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in