BRITISH POLITICS.
EVICTED TENANTS BILL. Received August 4, 4.16 p.m. LONDON, August 3. In the House of Commons the Evicted Tenants Bill was read a third time. UNIVERSAL PENNY POSTAGE. Received August 4, 4.16 p.m. LONDON, August 3. Mr Henniker-Heaton, in a letter to the Times,ridicules Mr Sydney C.Bux'ton'sfinancial bogey in connection with universal penny postage. He declares that a net loss of half a million a year is impossible. It is improbable that the amount will exceed £125,000.
MINERS' EIGHT HOURS BILL. Received August 3, 8.10 a.m. LONDON, August 2. In the House of Commons the Miners' Eight Hours Bill was introduced by the Right Hon. Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, and read a first time. Representatives of the Coal Owners' Association and Miners' Federation are conferring in the hope of rendering such a measure, if passed in 1908, workable and a;ceptable'to both parties. Mr Gladstone's Bill exempts officials, supervisors, and employees in positions of authority, and provides the means of suspending v the measure in case of national emergency or an industrial crisis leading to dearth of s coal.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8503, 5 August 1907, Page 5
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180BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8503, 5 August 1907, Page 5
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