IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 67, 24 July 1913, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

REFORM MATTERS

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright]' [United Press Association.] : > i London, July 23.

An Imperial Communications Committee has been formed in the House of Commons under the chairmanship of Mr Norton Griffiths, to carry on Mr Henniker Heaton’s postal reform campaign. ,■

Mr Asquith has promised Mr Sonar Law to enquire whether the firm ol Samuel and Montagu, Indian silver brokers, of which Sir Stuart Samuel is a partner, took advantage of confidential information to make profits for themselves.

Lord Deerhurst, addressing the Norwich Primrose League, said that the Unionist Party had decided or its return to power to abolish payment of members and make it a plank of the next election programme.

BETTING AT FOOTBALL

(Received 11.-30 a.m.) London, July 23

Mr Hayes-Fisher, Unionist, on behalf of the Football Association, introduced in the House of Commons n Bill to prevent advertisements and circulars relative to coupon and ready•r.oney betting.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Cable. 1 London, July 23.

Mr Asquith, in the House of Commons, said that he intended to carry the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill before the House rose on August 16. It was absolutely essential that it should bo passed if justice ws to be done to all parts of the Empire and the selfgoverning dominions.

EDUCATION REFORM

(Received 8 a.m.) London, July 23

Mr Pease, in introducing one of the clauses of the Education Bill, outlined the Government’s intentions in 1914, when they would lie complete. The Education Bill would prove costly, but it would do for secondary educa tion what Mr Forster’s Bill did for elementary education. The new measure would not affect tho elementary system of voluntary schools, but it provides a broad smooth road from the elementary school to the university, removes the grievances of A on-con-formists with regard to single schools area, compels the local authorities to provide the necessary technical and secondary schools, baths, playing fields, meals for poor children, holidays, and removes the ration limitation placed by the local authorities. The Government will grant a substantial subsidy to carry out the scheme.