CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2364, 3 December 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE EDUCATION BILL.

NONCONFORMISTS DISSATISFIED

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LONDON, Dec. 1

In the Education Dill debate Mr. Dillon and other Catholic members pleaded! for more generous treatment of Catliolic schools. Mr. Runciman said he ivas confident that Catholic subscribers would not be called on to provide £200,000 a year to keep their schools in existence if the grant were increased to 50s.

Most of clause 1 had not been discussed Avhen the closure was applied. Mr. Runciman said he hoped that before the Bill left the House of Commons he Avoid d be able to state Avhether the church .representatives accepted the .Government’s terms. AH outstanding questions had now been settled excepting that of rent for transferred school grants and contracting out of schools.

The extreme Nonconformist members of the House of Commons are dissatisfied .with the right of entry under the Education Bill, and are urging Mr. Asquith to withdraw the measure.

OPPOSITION TO THE RIGHT OF

ENTRY

NONCONFORMIST AND RADICAL

ATTACK

i (Received Dee. 2, 9.40 p. 111.)

LONDON, Dec. 2

During the discussion in the House of Commons on clause 2 of the Education Bill, a strong Nonconformist and Radical attack Avas directed against the concession of the right of entry to country schools-for the purpose of religious teaching. The Opposition chiefly support the Government. The debate is not concluded.

THE CHILDREN’S BILL.

A REMNANT OF THE LICENSING BILL. LONDON, Dec. 1. The House of Lords has passed the Children’s Bill, introducing from the dead Licensing Bill a clause disallowing a child to enter the bar of licensed premises.