ADDRESS CARRIED

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6

ADDRESS CARRIED

BY GOOD MAJORITY HOW VOTING WENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 22. " In the House of Commons, in-me-“diately after the division, which was taken amid the keenest excitement, Mr Macdonald claimed that the main question, namely, that of the Address. ,be put. The Speaker accepted this, which is allowable, thus wiping out the other amendments, amid strong - Conservative protests. The amended -• Address was then carried by 32S votes to 251. On Mr Baldwin’s motion the House adjourned until to-morrow. There were wild Labour cheers an __ Mr Macdonald left the Chamber. Mr Baldwin was also rousingly cheered by his supporters as he departed. The following Liberals votes for the Government: —Sir Bed doe R -es (Camborne) and Sir Thomas Robinson (Stratford); also Messrs Duckworth, Hugh Edwirds, Larg, Sturroek, Hogbin, Jenkins, W. E. Robinson, and Colonel England. An analysis of the voting show* that the majority was composed of ’B7 Labour members. 137 Liberals, 2 Irish j Nationalists, and 2 Independents. The * minority consisted of 24-5 Conservatives, 10 Liberals, and 1 Independent. Eight women voted, 5 of them against and 3 for the Government. AGAINST SOCIALISM LIBERAL RESOLUTION. Reuter’s TelevTam * (Received January 24, 12.40 a.m.) * ' LONDON, January 22. * A meeting of Liberal Commoners unanimously passed a resolution de- - -daring inter alia their steadfast deter- - -mination to resist every attempt to destroy' private enterprise and establish socialisation of industry. FRANCE DISPLEASED CHANGE NOT RELISHED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 24, 12.40 a.m.) PARIS, January 22. ' Extreme Right newspapers foresee ‘ nothing but ill from the advent of a - Socialist Government in Britain. Extreme Left papers hail the event as a ” -triumph of democracy, opening a new * era. Centre and Government organs confine themselves to the hope that things .will go all right.