IRISH AFFAIRS
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION.
AT NEXT LOCAL ELECTIONS
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Afsn.) Received April 1, 12.15 a.m. LONDON, March 30.
The House of Commons passed the second reading of the Bill applying proportional representation to the next Irish local elections. Mr A. W. Samuels, Irish AttorneyGeneral. said the representation of the minorities must be safeguarded. At present the Sinn Fciners and Bolshevists were wrecking local institutions. Sir Edward Carson denounced the measure. The Nationalists and Unionists supported it as the only means of preventing the Sinn Fciners obliterating minorities.
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Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14026, 1 April 1919, Page 5
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90IRISH AFFAIRS Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14026, 1 April 1919, Page 5
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