IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14274, 15 August 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

j AYOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. IVess Aseociaiiou-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON.. August 12° Mr Lloyd George, addressing the Carnarvon 'Women's Liberal Association, justified his vote against women's suffrage. He declared that it was an undemocratic Bill that gave a vote to every woman with property, but barely a tenth of the working women had any. He and Mr Churchill were denounced as traitors to the women's cause, because they did not support a measure which the suffragists of Australia and New Zealand would scornfully reject. He doubted if women really wanted the franchise. The settlement of the House of Lords difficulty and "Welsh disestablishment were paramount.- Afterwards democratic suffrage would have his whole-hearted support. The political weather was a little uncertain, and he advised the Liberals to carry their macintoshes. HELP FOR WORKMEN. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Dolwyderan, said he had already prepared a scheme and raised the necessary money to secure workmen from breaking down before, seventy from absolute want. He hoped the allowance would exceed 3s per week.

CREDIT BANKS SCHEME. Received 5.5 p.m., August 14th. LONDON, August 13. Sir Gilbert Parker, in a letter to the "Times," says that the Government's credit banks scheme is unbusinesslike, and declares that the Government is nnahle to afford loans to tenants who have little security. The Unionists offered ownership instead of tenancy, and purchase instead of perpetual rent. FREE MOTOR CARS. The Treasury exempts from the inland revenue tax, motor ears which colonials bring with them for touring purposes.