M.P’S. FREE TRAVEL
THIRD CLASS SUGGESTED DEBATE IN THE .COMMONS LONDON, Feb. 24. lit the House of Commons, Mr. H. Crookshank (0.) moved to reduce the estimate covering vouchers to enable members of the Commons to travel first class between their constituencies and London, suggesting ( that owing to the straitened finances third class ought to suffice, and it would be doubly efficacious in enabling Labor members to hear what the people were saying about the Government.
Mr. Jack Jones (Lab.) said the paltry economy talk would furnish Charles Chaplin, if present, with an idea for his next picture. Members of the House should be allowed aeroplanes in urgent cases.
Mr. IL J. 0. Boothby (C.) said that politicians who received all the kicks and no thanks were entitled to comfortable travel. “Third class undergrounds might be all right,” he said, “but between Aberdeen and London the third class is the nearest approach to hell I know.”
The amendment was negatived by 258 votes to 130.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17502, 26 February 1931, Page 7
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