IN FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 9

IN FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS

MEGAN LLOYD GEORGE A GOOD TALKER ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS (United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 1.35 p.m. LONDON, Monday. Miss Megan Lloyd George showed the same oratory as her father in a wireless broadcast from London, when

she announced herself as one of the new voters. “We number a fifth of the total electorate,” she said. “Our votes may easily determine the issue and affect the destiny of the race.” One phrase was characteristic -of her father: “Instead of sending round the hat to collect for distress, let us use the brains under the hat and find the real solution.” ELECTION IN BRITAIN PARTY LEADERS BEGIN BUSY WEEK PEERS ALSO TAKING PART (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Sunday. . The leaders of the political parties in Britain have a strenuous week of electioneering before them. The Primp Minister, Mr. Baldwin, yesterday visited his constituency, Bewdley, Worcestershire, and after having been formally elected Conservative effhdidate he addressed a public meeting. Tomorrow Mr. Baldwin is to begin a tour of the West of England. He will speak at seven or eight meetings in three days, and will return to London to address a meeting of city men on Thursday. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labour Party, will tomorrow address his supporters at Seaham, Durham County, for which he is the Labour candidate in place of Mr. Sidney Webb. On Tuesday he will begin a tour of Scotland. Mr. Lloyd George, Leader of the Liberal Party, who has spoken at a series of meetings in Wales in the past few days, is to address the Liberal candidates of London and the Home Counties tomorrow. After that he will leave at once for his constituency, Carnarvon, Wales. Late in the week he is to speak at Cardiff and Swansea. Among prominent members of the House of Lords who are taking part in the election are the Earl of Birkenhead and Viscount Grey.