4 MARCH 1938, Page 3

The House then began to consider the Rent Restriction Bill.

The Minister, aiming at the ultimate removal of all control, proves that conditions are more favourable to the removal of control from B class houses than they were to the removal of control from A class houses at the time of the last Act. Labour, desiring that control through rent courts shall be permanent, condemns the Bill as designed to raise the rents of 450,000 families. The committee stage will be a bad dream for the non-legal mind.