CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8679, 12 March 1914, Page 5

CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER

CENSURE MOTION DEFEATED

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, March 10. Sir J. S. Randle’s motion censuring the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Lloyd George) for unfounded attacks on individuals, particularly in his speech at Glasgow last month, was defeated by 304 votes to 240. [ln his speech at Glasgow Mr Lloyd George dealt with the land question. It had cost Glasgow a quarter of a million, ho said, to clear a slum area which the landlord should have been compelled to clear as a nuisance. They must make the land contribute on tbe basis of its real value. The Duke of Montrose had extracted a vast sumon the basis of his contribution to the mtc&—for the land acquired from him for the Glasgow waterworks. The Admiralty had been forced to pay £27,225 for ten acres for a torpedo depot at Greenock, which was assessed for rating at £ll an acre. The Duke of Sutherland, in his recent offer to soli his estate to the Government, had thrown in every crag and every mountain at 22s 6d per acre. He wanted £479,000 for the loan, scraggy end of his huge joint, while his trustees valued his million acres for probate at £400,000. There had never been snob a case since the days of Ananias and Sapphire.} MR LLOYD GEORGE’S REPLY. PUBLIC CONSCIENCE AROUSED. flv Tclcgraph—Praaß Association—Copyrlßbi (Received March 12, 0.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 11. In the House of Commons, Mr Lloyd George, replying to Sir John Randle’s motion, justified his attacks on the landowners. He said they wore illustrations that the landowners were receiving great values which _ were created by local enterprise, without contributing anything. He quoted several of Mr Joseph Chamberlain’s speeches, and showed that Conservative papers had attacked Mr Chamberlain similarly. Ho congratulated himself that his land campaign had roused the public conscience.