POLITICS AT HOME.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 April 1910, Page 3

POLITICS AT HOME.

'I'AUI'KKM A XT) I'KXSIOXS. A SM AI jFJ GOVKIiX.MKXT MAJORITY. IBT KIiKCTIUC TKLKGHAI'II- COPYKIOHT.] Li'Klt IMIK9S ASSOCIATION.) LOXDOX, April 20. The. smallness of the Government's majority, when liy 201 to 182 carried the motion to suspend the 11 o'clock rule in favour of the Development Aft Amendment Hill, was the signal tor lotul Opposition cheers. Mr Lloyd-George sfatert that the first amendment of the Old Age Pensions Rill would lie tlie removal of pauper disqualification. [Any person receiving poor relief, in kind or money, is a piniper in Kndaiul. This, however, does not apply in the case of persons 'receiving medica Itreatment a>t the workhouses.