BRITISH POLITICS.
Press Association —Copyright. Received April 5, 9.47 p.m. London., April 4.
Mr Higham’s Coroner’s Inquests Bill, abolishing the compulsory viewing of bodies has been read a second time.
Mr Birrell intimated that there was a prospect of the Government legislating next year on the lines of Captain Craig’s Bill to distribute the ~ workhouse poor of Ireland among institutions such as almshouses, sanatoria and labour houses, in accordance with the report of the Yiceregal Commission of 1906. Mr Craig’s Bill was thereupon refused a second reading.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9114, 6 April 1908, Page 5
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87BRITISH POLITICS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9114, 6 April 1908, Page 5
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