BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 73, 21 March 1908, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

AN JSIUMX "1-JOUlt JJAi. .London, Ai.uch 1!). in the House of Commons, Air. J. it. CJ,U's, Labor member J'or AJaiJL-lif.-sLi'i - ,' moved that the working day in an trades and industries should In: limited by law to a maximum of eight hours, Mr. Herbert Gladstone said the resolution was too sweeping. Agriculture would be unable to accept, siicii a rigid, rule- It was impossible to insist on the limitation of domestic service, the textile trade or shipping. Tile (iuvernmeut jiijismt to push on the Aliiiers' Eight Hours' Bill. Mr. A. ,1. Balfour asked if the diminution of the textile trade would injure onr foreign Unite, why would not a diminution of our eoal production? Air. A. Henderson advised Hie withdrawal of the resolution, but, owing to an objection being raised the subject was lalked out. FAILUIiEOE AX ISXJ'KKI.UICXT. London, .March 1!). i In the House of Commons, Air. Joint i Burns informed Sir J?. Channing that, ? after the sale of produce, reckoning in • the relief given to dependents, the - weekly cost per man at the labor colony at Hollesley Bay was 3Us to 425, whereas the local wage rate for agricultmiu',.' laborers was only 17s.