POET LAUREATE
POSITION TO BE .CONTINUED LONDON, May 5. In the House of Commons, the Lord President of the Council, Mr. Baldwin, replied in the negative when asked whether, in the best interests of literature, the Government would discontinue the office of Poet Laureate at the end of the present holder’s tenure.
Mr. J. 11. F. McEwan (C.):' Will y,6u consider the possibility of handingover in future the work of composing odes to a select committee? (Laughter.) , Mr. John Masefield was appointed Poet Laureate in J 930,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17781, 17 May 1932, Page 9
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87POET LAUREATE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17781, 17 May 1932, Page 9
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