REDISTRIBUTION.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13410, 6 March 1914, Page 5

REDISTRIBUTION.

SELECT COMMITTEE APPOINTED.

(Received March 5, 11 p.m.) London, March 5,

The House of Commons agreed to Mr Edgar Jones's mdtion to appoint a Select Comraittoe "to consider redistribution. '

Mr. Long appealed to the Government to institute an independent inquiry in order to prevent the present .suggestion of gerrymandered constituencies. Mr. Herbert Samuel said the Government was willing to appoint a Minister to the committee if the Opposition would join in an effort to formulate a fair scheme. He hoped to settle the redistribution question before the General Election in 1915, if Parliament ran its normal course.

Mr. Asquith received the organisers of the Welsh Nonconformists' petition against the Wejsh Disestablishment. Bill. He said,the deputation failed to supply a reason for their attitude or explain the objections to disendownient.