IMPERIAL POLITICS
PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. CONDEMNED BY UNIONISTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 23. (Received July 23, at 11.40 p.m.) Viscount Deerhuret, addressing the Norwich branch of the Primrose League, said the Unionist party had decided on its return to power to abolish the payment of members, and to make the question, a plank in its next election programme. PURCHASE OF SILVER INQUIRY PROMISED.
LONDON, July 23. (Received July 23, at 11.40 p.m.)
In the House of Commons Mr Asquith promised Mr Bonar Law that he would inquire whether the firm of Samuel, Montague and Co., silver brokers for the Indian Office, of which Sir Stuart Samuel is a partner, took advantage of confidential information to make profit® for themselves.
POSTAL REFORMS. LONDON, July 23.
(Received July 23, at 11.40 p.m.)
An Imperial Communications Committee has been formed in the House of Commons under the chairmanship of Mr Norton Griffiths to carry on Sir Henniker Heaton's postal reform campaign. •
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15824, 24 July 1913, Page 7
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