TIRED LABOUR LEADER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20271, 3 June 1929, Page 10

TIRED LABOUR LEADER.

MacBONALD IN LONDON.

GREAT RECEPTION GIVEN.

CRAVING ONLY FOR SLEEP.

POLICE KEEP BACK CROWD

Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received June 2, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON. Juno 2. Mr, Ramsay Mac Donald had a remarkable reception on' his arrival at London from Seabam, Harbour, where he had the largest majority of any constituency in Britain.

Toward the hour at which his train was due all the streets round King's Cross Station weiro impassable. A platoon of police managed to protect tho Labour '/ Leader, who reached his homo at Hampstead worn out. and craving only for sleep. Both he and Mr. Lloyd George are now resting at homo. Tho Liberal Leader will in a few days bo consulting his supporters. It is understood that Mr. Mac Donald lias already drafted his Ministry. LABOUR AND LIBERALS. MacDONALD ON FUTURE. LLOYD GEORGE PHILOSOPHICAL. / Australian Press Association—United Service ! / LONDON. May 31. "After the declaration of tho poll at Sealiam, Durham, where Mr. Ramsay MacDonald secured a very large majority, the Labour leader addressed "a vast audience before coming to London. He made a survey of the "field of battle." Mr. 'MacDonald said:—"Things are changing. I am proud to have been associated with you in the change. Did ever Labour people live through such an inspiring moment, or think they would ever see Labour above tho Conservatives and double the Liberals at the polls. "It will not be all 'beer and skittles,' especially for -'me. You have finished the fight. I am beginning to bear tho burden. but J am doing it cheerfully, with I your backing through thick and thin.

"When I saw the women, particularly the young women, marching to the poll with happy faces, proudly wearing their colours, I visioned the result. I knew it. ■was all right.'

"Labour's gains in seats, great as they are, must not eclipse the extraordinary increase in our vote. Our thanks are duo to the women'' who voted, as we were sure they would vote, in favour of our policy of social reconstruction at" home and peace abroad."

Mr. Lloyd .George returned to London from Carnarvon this evening. He said "No party has done as well as it expected to do. It would bo silly for a Liberal to protend that wo have realised our expectations.

"Again we havo been tripped up by the triangle. Ilolding the balance is a very responsible position. Wo fully realise it, and you can depend upon it that wo shall not make an unfair use of it. Certainly we'shall not use it in a haggling spirit. ,We shall carefully consider what is tho best that should be done in the interests of the country."

DEFEATED MEMBERS.^

BLIND OFFICER LOSES SEAT.

PARTICULARS OF CAREERS,

Colonel C. M. Hcadlam, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, who lost his seat for Barnard Castle, was a clerk in the Parliament Office after leaving Oxford. lie served in the war and edited the Army Quarterly from 1920 to 1926. He entered the House in 1924.

Captain lan Fraser, who lost his sight, in the war in 1916, was at Malborough and Sandhurst Military College. He was a member of the London County Council, 1922-24. Ho is governor of Worcester College for the Blind. He was elected for St. Pancrasjn 1924.

Sir Archibald Boyd Carpenter had been Paymaster-General and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. He served in tho Boer War and in France. He was for some years /Mayor of Harrogato He was first elected to. tne House in 1918. Sir Charles Lucas-Tooth is private sceetary to the Parliamentary Secretary to tho Overseas Trade Department. He was born ifl 1903 and was at Eton and Oxford. He was elected ,to "the House at the age of 21 for Isle of Ely.

Sir Ellis Hume-Williams is Recorder of Norwich and a leading member of tho ■Bar. He served in the war, and was one of tho commission to Russia. He had been in the House of Commons since 1910. Sir Clement Kinloch-Coolce was born in 1884. lie was for many years a journalist and edited the Observer, the Pall Mall Gazette, the English Illustrated Magazine, the Sporting and Diamatic, and the Empire Review. He wrote " Australian Defences and Now Guinea." He was first elected to Parliament in 1910.

PREVIOUS ELECTIONS.

POSITION IN 1923 RECALLED. IRISH 7 PARTY'S INFLUENCE. The present position of parties in the House of Commons, with no one party having an absolute majority over all parties, really has its only parallel in 1923. But there were occasions after the formation'' of the Irish Nationalist Party when it coukl, by voting with one of the other parties, defeat tho Government. When Galdstone was returned to power in 1886 and brought ,in the first Home Rule Bill, the Liberal majoi'ity was .just short of tho combined strength of tho -Conservatives and the Parnellitcs. The general election of 1892 gave Gladstone a majority of <lO for Home Rule, composed Of Liberals, Labour members and the Irish. '■ , In January, 1910, tho general election was held y largely on tho issue, put forward by tho Liberal's, of the power of tho House of Lords to reject a Budget, and the Liberals and Conservatives wore practioally equal, but tho Irish and Labour ipembor-s Mr. Asquith a majority in Commons. In December, £■ o,ec Mp» returns wore Liberals, cl 17monists > 272; Labour, 42; Irish, 84., , , mm-,,,' '