The House Of Lords
Sir, —In a House of Lords debate Lord Alexander of Hillsborough (not, one hopes, to be confused in New Zea-
land minds with his namesake of Tunis), arguing the case for its abolition, has cited New Zealand as an example of loyalty to the Crown notwithstanding that it has a single Chamber. I think the noble lord obscures the issue. New Zealand has no hereditary principle which affords the main initiative for unpaid political service. Despite the recent accretion of life peerages the House of Lords remains predominantly an example of noblesse oblige. Many of its members, of course, never attend a debate, but those who do must be credited with one of the rarest virtues of this age—a sense of public duty—and their extinction would leave the field wide open for political careerists. New Zealand’s loyalty to the Crown seems to me to be something which is above politics.—Yours, etc., CARACTACUS. April 12, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29797, 13 April 1962, Page 8
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