NEWFOUNDLAND

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1933, Page 5

NEWFOUNDLAND

MONEY TO' PAY BONDHOLDERS

SUGGESTIONS IN COMMONS

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LONDON, December 13.

Mr J. PI. Thomas moved the second reading in the House of. Commons of the Bill to carry out the recommendations of the royal commission on the Newfoundland government. He said the commission first examined the question of the sale of Labrador by Newfoundland. The. next considered Jinking Newfoundland and .Canada, but Newfoundland was opposed thereto and Canada was not enthusiastic.

■ Major C. R-. Attlee moved the rejection of the Bill on the ground that the Bill imposed an unjustifiable burden on British taxpayers.

Mr Grigg suggested that during the temporary suspension of Newfoundland’s constitution, a couple of representatives of Newfoundland should sit in the House of Commons. There was precedent in the case of Northern Ireland.

Mr Malcolm MacDonald, replying, said the Government were coming not merely to the rescue of the Newfoundland bondholders, but to a whole distressed population, just they would have to do in the case of Australia, or South Africa, or Canada in similar difficulties, though this, he said, was unlikely to he regarded as a precedent.

The Bill passed the second reading by 250 to 42 vo+os .