BESTOWAL OF HONOURS
MOTION CONDEMNING SYSTEM DEFEATED. (Rec. Juno 8, 11.5 p.m.) London, Juno 7. In tho House of Commons a lively debate took yiluco on a motion condemning tho present system of bestowing honours. Lord Hugh Cecil and others strong 7 urged that every honour should bo submitted to a committee of the Privy Council, so that thero could bo no suspicion possible that they, wore corruptly recommended to tho Sovereign. Other critic* urged that all subscriptions to party funds be mado public. ■ _ Mr. Bonar Law, replying, denied that •honours woro sold by the Government Ho was willing to accopt a resolution that tho honours should not be given dircctlyv or indirectly for subscriptions to party funds, but said it was impossiblo and undesirable to forbid public rewards for party services while tho party system continued. Men naturally boliovcd thai their political work was for the country's good. . •' Tho motion was defeated by 112 votes to JO.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable, Assiv.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19190609.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 218, 9 June 1919, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
160BESTOWAL OF HONOURS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 218, 9 June 1919, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in