HONOURS?
SOME LIVELY COMMENT. [Aust. and X.Z. Cable Association.] (Received gundav, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. In the House of Commons a lively debate took place on the motion condemning the present system of bestowing honours. Lord Hugh Cecil and others strongly urged that every honour should 1)C submitted to a committee of the Privy Council, so that no suspicion was passible that they had been corruptly recommended to the Soverign. Other critics urged that all subscriptions to party funds should be made public. Mr Bouar Law replying denied that honours Avcre sold. The Government Avas Avilling to accept tho resolution that honours should not be given, directly or indirectly, for subscriptions to party funds, but he said that it was impossible and undesirable to forbid public rewards for party services. While the jxarty system continued men naturally believed their politic Avork Avas for the country’s good. The motion Avas defeated by 312 to 50.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14136, 9 June 1919, Page 5
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155HONOURS? Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14136, 9 June 1919, Page 5
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