BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9115, 15 June 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

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PREVENTION OF CRIMES BILL. Received June 14, 4 80 p.m. LONDON, June 13. The Prevention of Crimes Bill, extending the Borstal system, was read a second time in the House of Commons by 133 votes to 11. Mr Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, stated that the Government would provide the machinery necessary for bringing every kind and good influence to bear on prisoners, and to teach them trade 3 and show them what fools they had been, and to equip them for a new start in life. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL. "COSTLY AND IMPRACTICABLE." LONDON, June .12. The Liberal newspapers declare that the proposed amendments of the Labour Party in the Old Age Pensions Bill would be costly and impracticable. The Independent Labour members in the House of Commons have decidtd to move a series of amendments to the Old Age Pensions Bill, urging:— (1) Reduction of the agelimit from seventy to sixty-five. (2) Abolition of income limit. (3) Abolition of the disqualification attaching to present paupers. (4) Abolition of the differentiation proposed as between married couples and relatives who are living together. (5) Abolition of the character t^st.