The Liberal Party moved.an amendment to ensure the payment of the subsidy on houses of a large size than those specified in the Act. 'The proposed increase would have: included houses of the kind rented by the lower middle classes from whom the Liberal party now derives: most' of its diminishing support. This amendment was ruled out of order on the ground that it migh: add to the charges under the scheme. At a subsequent debate: Mr. Sunlight M.P. brought a little Sunshine into" the controversy. Under the ten minutes rule he craved permission to submit a Bill to solve the whole of the labour: problem. For Mr. Sunlight has. Tong marked the operative bricklayers' incurable aversion to laying more than a certain number of bricks per diem. To circumvent these Tired Tims he proposes to have the bricks made bigger by Act of Parliament. He appears to assume that the brick and mortar manipulator will not mark this conspiracy to rush the houses up, Will continue to lay his daily two hundred, or two hundred and 50 bricks by sheer force of habit. For: a moment Mr. Sunlight's oppor tunity trembled in the balance for. a derisive member ironically, suggested that the new bricks should be made the size of one side of a house, Then the House slowly recovered its gravity and by a maj ity of one vote gave Sunlight the permission he craved.
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