THE OPENING CEREMONY.
FORECAST OF LEGISLATION. LONDON, January 29. King Edward and Queen Alexandra opened Parliament amid much enthusiasm. | Bills promised in the Speech from the Throne include Licensing for England and Wales, Education for England and Wales, Hours of Labour in Coal Mines, Housing '• of the Working Classes, Valuation of Property in England and Wales for Purposes of Taxation, University Education for Ireland, Compulsory Acquisition of j Untenanted Land in Ireland for the Relief of the Existing Congestion, Improvement and Control of the Port and Waterway of London, Protection of Children, Treatment of Juvenile Offenders, and Scottish Land and Valuation. Sir Gilbert Parker will move an amendment to the Address-in-Reply regretting that the Government has not fulfilled its pledge to establish conditions of labour in the Hebrides in accord with its- avowed policy in the Transvaal and elsewhere
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Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 19
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139THE OPENING CEREMONY. Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 19
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