POOR LAW REFORM.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 7

POOR LAW REFORM.

In the Upper House of Convocation yesterday afternoon, tit. the Church House, AVestliiinstoiy the Archbishop of Canterbury presided. The principal business was the presentation of nn address to mo King, which was moved by the Bishop ot London. The address contained a .v.*.ence to the Coronation, to the wek-jiuo which will greet the Kins in the visits promised to Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and to the "splendour of Oriental homage" which will Rather round his Majesr tv's presence in the midst of his Indian Sl 'ln moving the adoption of the address, the Bishop of Loudon (Dr. Ingram) referred to the extraordinary loyalty of Canada to the King and Empire. 11a remembered how in a spcceli which he inr.do in Canada in the summer lie only alluded (o (he King almost in passing, and immediately' 'he whole vast assembly, were 011 their feet singing "God save the Kin';:." The only point in the address which might lie thought to be controversial was ilie expression of a hope that al an early date it would be found practicable to give effect by legislation to some of the wellconsidered suggestions in the report of the IJoyal' Commission on the Poor Law. When one considered that both sides in politics were unileil on the expediency of this, and when, alter discussion, it. was felt by everyone thai the question of the' feeble-minded and of boy labour should' be dealt with by legislation, he thought ilioir lordships would all agree I hat'they were not saying anything controversial, but expressing the unanimous opinion of all thinking citizens.