moved an amendment that the Archbishop of Canterbury should appoint a committee to investigate any methods by which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners might be empowered lo effect necessary improvements in housing conditions on land comprised in a lease at a date earlier than that at. which the lease would actually expire.
The Bishop of Winchester, Dr. C. F. Garbett, said: "I have seldom heard a speech which was more unjust and more unfair than the speech made by Mr. Currie. He was grossly unfair in his quotations.'
The Archbishop of Canterbury asked how Mr. Currie reconciled his description of Miss Fitzgerald's report as a "damning document" with Miss Fitzgerald's ultimate conclusion that the Commissioners were not only good landlords, but even exceptionally good.
During discussion of Mr. Winckworth's amendment the Bishop ai London, Dr. Winnington-Ingram, said that when allusions were made to immorality in Maida Vale, the immorality was not in houses, but it was in people picking up girls in the street, The amendment was put and approved.
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