IRELAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145094, 20 September 1916, Page 3

IRELAND.

REBUILDING DUBLIN. SPEECH: BY NEW CHIEP-SEGRE- •’ TARY. By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, Sept. 18. The maiden speech at Dublin of the new Irish Secretary, ME H. B. Duke, created an excellent effect. He indicated that the Government would assist the municipality in re-building the slum areas for re-housing 31,000 families, at a cost of three and a half millions. The social conditions in Dublin fostered. Sum Feinism. , Ireland’s revenue had risen from H millions to 18 millions during the war, so that instead of Ireland coating the Exchequer two millions she was now contributing £5,300,000 years for wan purposes. '