DISSATISFIED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 53, 4 March 1931, Page 7

DISSATISFIED.

MINISTER RESIGNS.

Further Indication of Disunity In Labour Cabinet. MacDONALD'S TROUBLES. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 3. Although the resignation of Sir Charles Trevelyan, President of the Board of Education, is the direct outcome of the rejection of the Education Bill by the House of Lords, he indicates his dissatisfaction in other directions in his letter to the Prime Minister.

He says he has realised for some time that he is greatly out of sympathy with the general policy of the Government, and declares that the present disastrous condition of trade requires big Socialist measures rather than painful and ineffective economies.

"As ' time proceeds the situation becomes worse," says Sir Charles, "and we show less intention to rely upon Socialism as the salvation of the country." ■ >

At 4 meeting of the Parliamentary Labour party, Sir Charles Trevelyan explained the reasons for his resigning from the Government. Later, he announced that he would not make a personal statement in the House of Commons.

Both sides of the House regard the resignation as evidence of dissatisfaction with the Government which is not confined to the back-benchers. Sir Charles caused a minor sensation last year by attacking Harrow, his old school, declaring that it was a school merely for the rich, Where the boys believed in brawn, not' in brains.

ELECTORAL REFORM. TO BE DISCUSSED IN COMMONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY,'March 3. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, in the House of Commons, proposed to discuss the Electoral Reform Bill, embodying the principle of the alternative vote in Parliamentary elections. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Opposition, resisted on the ground that the proposed time-table involved limiting the discussion by a motion of closure, which was undesirable in respect to such a measure. j Mr. Mac Donald's motion was carried.