HEREDITARY TITLES.

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1923, Page 7

HEREDITARY TITLES.

Labour Bril to Abolish Them (Received May 10 at 1.36 p.m.) LONDON, May 9. In the House of Commons to day, a Bill introduced by Air Arthur I’oiisonby (Labour AU’.) was read a first time. The purpose of the Bid is to terminate hereditary titles. K was introduced under the .10 minutes' rule. The Bill allows the holder ti renounce the title, and no heir or heir ess born after the Act is passed wJ be allowed to succeed to the peerage Mr I’onsonby claimed that bis Ik 1 erred on the side of moderation, 'i’i,.. hereditary }>rinciple was a survival o: medievalism. The dignity of meri: and '''dist inction was rapidly disappearing from the peerage, and party payments and beer and whisky were ink ;ng their place. Hereditary titles mili.stered to vanity, encouraged corrup lion, and led to snobbishness and lunkeyism. '‘ ■ Ponsonby added tha. the Labour 1.,.;y when it came into lower would vol confer hereditary ion on rs. The Speaker im.dv: rtently forgo! to put the question io th.’ Noes, so th" notion was rogi‘-tered ns carried mem ,-on.