BRITISH POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1926, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS

[Reuter Telegrams.]

LONDON, April 28. The Budget resolutions were carried without division.

It is officially stated it is the Government’s intention to incorporate ten years’ preference in the 1' inance Act, milking in therefore unalterable except by another act. The Government admits the right of Parliament to alter, amend or repeal any act, but it is unbelievable any succeeding governments will dishonour its predecessor’s pledge if ratified by Parliament. In the Lords, Lord Buck-master moved that the Government he requested to withdraw the instructions given to Welfare Committees for withholding from married women information on the limitation of families. The Archbishop of Canterbury said there are clinics specially for such knowledge and there is no restraint on such ‘inquiries in welfare centres. Lord Russell claimed every woman wns entitled to such liberty. Lord Balfour said opposition to the motion seemed to be based on religious grounds, but religious people had no right to impose ideas on women who were helpless because of poverty, or withhold from them information available to their richer sisters. Lord Fitzalan said he and Catholic co-religionists would oppose such things to tlio end of time. The Chancellor feared the nation would permit workers without medical knowledge to give advice. The motion wns agreed to by 157 to 44.