"THE RUIN OF HIM"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1939, Page 6

"THE RUIN OF HIM"

GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT

A RISING M.P.

(By Alt Mall, from "The Post's" London Representative.) LONDON, March 2. Mr. Allan Lennox-Boyd, Parliamenary Secretary to the Minister, of Labour, has been one of the few M.P.S to say a word for Australia and New Zealand on the question of the limita- i tion of meat imports. Speaking at Biggleswade,: he declared that Britain's future lay with the Dominions, and he asked for a greater measure of Empire trade. "It is to the Dominions that we turn in the hour of danger," he said.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd added that Britain would turn to the Dominions for a great part of their aid in the event of war: "When we read of the effect of Australian imports on home agriculture, or of New Zealand imports on the home sheep farmer, we should remember that in the last war one Australian in 12 and one New Zealander in four offered to fight. Had it not been for that aid there might have been no sheep here to protect today."

Although many.regard Mr. LennoxBoyd as a young man df much ability, others do not share that view. The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, was actually criticised for having promoted Mr. Lennox-Boyd to his Secretaryship. Outside Parliament there is at least one who worries about the promotion. An old Dorset gardener is dubious. He wonders what is going to become of Mr. Lennox-Boyd's reputation at darts!

The member for Mid-Bedfordshire is & particularly skilful darts player, and Whilst on a visit recently to Sir Charles Petrie, the historian, Mr. Lennox-Boyd caused a great deal of dismay among the locals by his accurate marksmanship.

To Sir Charles Petrie's gardener he is evidently something of a hero.

i "How be Mr. Lennox-Boyd's darts going on?" the gardener asked the other day.

"Ah, now that he holds a Government appointment .he doesn't have much time for playing darts," the gardener was told. "There now!" said the old man; "I thought 'twould be the ruin of him."

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