Lady Houston and The Schneider Cusp

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5566, 3 February 1931, Page 7

Lady Houston and The Schneider Cusp

A CAUSTIC EETOET. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Feb. 1. “Lady Houston’s announcement of Saturday is another proof that many rich people regard the Labour Government merely as a hateful interlude in which only the barest pretence of social decency is required,” said Mr. E. S. Montague, Under-Secretary for Air, speaking at Reading. “While wealthy industrialists demand stringent economy at the cost of

the desperately poor, she talks about the Socialist Government’s paltry excuses and. the thermal state of her blood. It would have been more sporting if she had made the promise in the patriotic spirit she claims to .possess.” Lady Houston, who telegraphed Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, guaranteeing the £IOO,OOO necessary for the Schneider Cup race, which is scheduled to take place on The Solent, in September, is t.lio widow of one of England’s shipping magnates, who left a fortune of over £(>,000,000 about a third of which was collared by the Government in death duties before the Labour party came into office. Considerable controversy was aroused over the payment of the duties because tho Houstons had lived in the Island of Jersey, where it was alleged they took up their residence in an attempt to evade paying the tax.