AN ANGRY LORD.
ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT. "GREATEST CALAMITY TO THE COUNTRY.” (Received December 2. 9 p.m.) LONDON: Dec. 2. In the House of Lords, Lord Carsou s'unoc-rtipg; Lord H'arris’s motion demanding that the Landlord and Tenant Bull he referred to a select committee. angrily attacked .the Government, declaring. “The greatest. calamity to the country -is ; the Government. It has an ovenvhekndig majority; will listen to nobody: it thinks all its members have to do is to come to the House and say. •We are the Conservative Government and upholders of the House or Lords. You must pass this Bill without examination.’ ‘lf the House or Lords is unable to tlirow but-, amend -’r examine-Bills, what are we here for?” r . , Lord Birkenhead. Lord Cave, Lord Readiinr. Lord Burnham, and others pointed out that owing to pressure of time, the motion would kill the Bill, and it would lie interpreted by tlie country as a hack-stair way of throwing; out the Bill in tlie interosts of the landlords-. K . Lord Harris’s motion was defeated.—N.Z. and A.P.A. - and Sun.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10450, 3 December 1927, Page 9
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177AN ANGRY LORD. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10450, 3 December 1927, Page 9
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