LIFE PEERAGES
DOMINION PRIME MINISTERS SUGGESTION IN BRITAIN LONDON, March 21 In the House of Lords to-day, Lord Strickland, "raising the question with a view to the Empire Prime Ministers' visits to Britain for the Coronation, asked whether steps could be taken to enable the Dominion visitors to sit and .speak in the House of Lords. Lord Strickland referred to the statesmanship shown by the Dominion Prime Ministers during the December crisis. Ho suggested that there would be objections in many Dominions to hereditary honours, and a remedy would be to confer life peerages. The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, replied that he did not believe the law as it stood at present would permit the adoption of Lord Strickland's suggestion. Moreover, ho doubted whether the Prime Ministers would bo grateful for an invitation to spend half the year at Westminster when they ought to be attending to affairs in their own countries. The House of Lords, however, had the benefit of the presence of Viscount Bledisloe, Lord Stonehaven, a former Governor-General of Australia, and others peculiarly qualified to expound the views of the Dominions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22687, 27 March 1937, Page 11
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184LIFE PEERAGES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22687, 27 March 1937, Page 11
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