Bledisloe Regrets Passing of Country Squires
{N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. June 25. When the Agriculture Bill, which provides machinery for making British farming more prosperous, with efficiency as its keynote, was read a second time in the House of Lords, Lord Bledisloe, who' owns 6,000 acres in Gloucestshire and Wiltshire, remarked that " the Bill marks the virtual extinction, except as a factor in actual food production, of the class of country squires to which 1 and generations of my forbears have been proud to belong." Lord Bledisloe remarked that he was nearly 80, and said: “ This may be my swan song." He went on to say: " But I reluctantly recognise that vital national needs must take precedence of any section of the body politic, however deserving,” and he added that he gave a whole-hearted welcome to " this epoch-making measure, which rescues British agriculture from the cockpit of party politics.”
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Evening Star, Issue 26137, 26 June 1947, Page 7
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