HOUSE OF LORDS
NEW APPOINTEE'S VIEWS (United Press Association—By Electric ' Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, May 13. Although he has been created a Viscount in the Coronation honours, Sir Herbert Samuel, former Liberal M.P. still opposes hereditary principles 1 vif choosing the members of any legislative assembly. In a letter to the President of the Liberal Association of Danven, Viscount Samuel says that lie declined a peerage twenty years ago. He would still be reluctant to surrender a seat in the House of Commons for one in the House of Lords, but the voters of the Darwen constituency had rejected him. He would have no opportunity to win back the seat for three years, when lie would be in his seventieth year. Therefore, lie says, he chooses to continue public service in the House of Lords, but he would always vote for the abolition of the hereditary principle in the choice of legislators.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1937, Page 5
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