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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15263, 29 March 1913, Page 5 (Supplement)

Many Chancellors of" the Exchequer besides Mr. Lloyd George have occupied - : Miat office before reaching fifty Aldington and Pitt were both under fifty. . 800-' inson was only forty-five at the end of | his term, while Goulburn was forty-six* y Peel, relinquished this office at -. and Baring at. forty-five. _ When Disraeli 5, had hist first short experience in. 1852 h». was forty-eight, arid Mr. Gladstone waa - only forty-three at the' time 'of ,his -firsts Budget. Ward , Hunt - vent ouV fat th* 3,13 same age, the present;.. Lord .St. Aldwyjtf ,£{ completed-his first term at forty,mne,an<lv g Lord Randolph £ Churchill went - out ft aki, ■ Q forty-two. On the- whole, youth ,ha« " reigned at tha Treasury, though Oanmng lf ' \ Lowe, Stafford Northoote, Sir Wiltiaav , court; ; Childers, *nd Ritchie had *H ' passed fifty whoa they went tbcw* t- 1