MR CLYNES HEADS VOTING AT LABOUR CONFERENCE.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) RUGBY, October 9. At the Labour Party conference at Llandudno to-day, Mr J. R. Clynes, Home Secretary, headed the voting list in the trades union section in the election of the new National Executive. There were fourteen candidates for twelve seats. The Foreign Secretary, Mr Arthur Henderson, was elected treasurer without a contest. During the proceedings of the Labour Party conference at Llandudno, Mr Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Health, stated that the Government meant to evolve a national maternity service to reduce mortality in childbirth. He said that in Britain mortality among mothers was growing higher. Among the miners every year 3000 mothers died in childbirth. The Government intended to mobilise every form of health provision and service there was in the country into a comprehensive scheme
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19198, 11 October 1930, Page 1
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