BRITISH EDUCATION BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 287, 28 November 1908, Page 2

BRITISH EDUCATION BILL.

DEBATE IX THE COMMONS, Loudon, November 20, The debute on the second reading of the relocation Hill in the House ot Commons was adjourned. Archbishop fiowiiie, on behalf of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, has declared that Mr iiuacinwns Education Bill gives no real settlement of the question.

The ltev. ih- Cripps, Vivur-Ucneral of the Province of Canterbury, has resigned as a protest against the compromise on the edueation question.

THE BILL PASSES ITS SECOND HEADING. THE PREMIERS CONTENTION. Received 27, 10.10 p.m. London, November 27. Mr. Euneiman's Education Bill was read a second time by 322 to 157. Both sides were tacitly emancipated from party discipline, the members voting according to their personal iaclinv tions.

The Premier (Mr. 11. H. Asquith) contended that nonconformists gained the substance of what tiro Government were pledged to obtain for them, and the Church had the rig!:: ot entry to Council schools. The Church, moreover, might erect its own schools in single school areas, not at the expense of the rates, but with iii.> Exchequer's liberal assistance. .Mr.'Asquith 4n«'ttioned that Catholics in Scotland recognised contracting out. The averago grant to each Catholic child there was 40s, compared to 50s under the present Bill.

The subsequent speeches consisted of a continuous stream of criticism or half-hearted commendation.

Mr. Balfour emphasised that nobody rtgardted this compromise as a Ami settlement, and nobody was prepared to defend its merits. He foresaw strife. Mr. Asquith promised to accept amendments in committee. The Times, in mentioning the growing .mistrust and giving an exposition of the details of the Bill, declared that if peace were desired the Government had no time to lose in announcing amendments. Received 27, 11.10 p.m. London, November 27. The majority for the Education Bill included Mr. Austin Chamberlain, M-. Alfred Lyttelton, Sir J. Kennaway, and a score of other Unionists, The minority included 07 Nationalists and the bulk of the Labor Party, as well as Mr Geo. Wyndham, Mr. W. H. Long, and other Unionists. Many abstained from voting.