CHURCHILL COMPLAINS OF DULLEST ELECTION

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 7

CHURCHILL COMPLAINS OF DULLEST ELECTION

Bat Not His Colleagues

BIRKENHEAD, AMERY, AND JOYNSON HICKS

HAVE UPROARIOUS MEETINGS. United Press Association—-By Electrie Telograph—Copy right. Received Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, May 26. Though Mr. Winston Churchill describes this as the dullest election caninaian, one remembers that Lord Birkenhead Mr. Aniery and Sir W. Joynson Hicks have had lively passages with interrupters. Lord Birkenhead threatened personally to throw an interrupter downstairs. In replving to a sneer about his £aooo pension, ha said: “If I give up £3O - 000 a year and accept office, should not Ibo entitled to a pension! As far as I know, I am the only person in the Empire proposing to give up my pension within three months.” Mr. Amery’s meeting was abandoned, owing to uproar by anti-Vivisectionists. Some of Sir W. Joynson Hicks electors expressed dissatisfaction with W $ refusal to pledge support for the antiStag Hunting Bill. Mr. L. C. Amery in a speech at Brierley Hill, stated that by giving preferences and encouraging Empire trade, the government had shown it understood the Dominions’ viewpoint and was prepared to co-operate. Was it not better to allow the government to continue this good work, than to call in people like Mr. Philip Snowden, who wished to repudiate preferences; tear them up and throw them in the faces ot Britain’s best customers?

CONSERVATIVE VICTORY WILL RELEASE MONEY. INVESTORS HOLDING OFF. Received Monday. 7.30 p.m. LONDON, May 26. The Morning Post financial writer says there is little doubt that if the Conservatives obtain a working majority, very large sums which arc held iu suspense pending tho result of the election will be released for investment. A certain amount of money being kept in tho United States will also return to London. The Liberal and Labour lenders are pledged to policies inimicato sound finance. Even if tho country were in robust financial health, there would be cause for fear if these policies were carried into effect. Henco, it is not surprising that Stock Exchange dealings this week have been restricted.