LORD OXFORD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 August 1927, Page 5

LORD OXFORD.

FRIENDS PROVIDE HIM WITH

LIFE INCOME

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT' LONDON, July 30.

In order to end speculations and inaccurate report®, Lord Reading has issued a statement that a, few of Lord Oxford’s friends and political admirers, irrespective of party, felt they wished to oiler him a gilt in the form oi a capital sum and a life income in appreciation of his public services. Lord Oxford expressed his willingness. The following contributed: Lords Aberoonway, Beauchamp, Beaverbrook, Cowdray, Derby, Devonport, Inohcape, Lincolnshire, Reading Shuttle worth. Sir Abe Bailey, Sir Alfred Aloud, Sir John Simon the Honourable Peter Parkin, Alessrs Bernhard B. Aron, H. N. Gladstone, and James de Rothschild. Lord Oxford could have made a fortune during the war, but- sacrificed it for an unremunerative political career. He could have taken the pension provided for ex-Ministers, but wofild have been obliged to sign a statement to the effect that he was in straitened circumstances. It has been said that he could not 7 o this, because he was in receipt of an annuity from a peer, who, however. died recently without making provision for its continuance, thus rendering the intervention of friends necessary Neither Lord nor Lady Ixford, nor the subscribers, however, were willing to make a statement of the facts It has been variously reported that the capital subscribed is between £IO.OOO and £20.000, and the annuity 03003. A complaint by a section of die Liberals tlmt Lord Oxford is reviving benefits from Tory peers prookec! the retort from Lord Beaverbrook: “If this be an objection, why didn’t the Liberals look after Lord Oxford themselves. Heaven knows he has done enough for them.”