BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1922, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE PROBLEMS AHEAD. PROMISE OF CO-OPERATION. LONDON, Oct. 26. Mr Lloyd George and Lord Birkenhead were the principal speakers at the r annual oyster feat at Colchester. Lord Birkenhead said:—“The Government is faced with great problems. It is our intention to afford it such help as lies in our power.” He observed with pleasure that the new Government had given proper recognition .4 to the House of Lords. It would seem that all the great departmental discussions would happen there. He did not think the Governmnt’s policy would differ much from the late Government’s.

Mr Lloyd George said he regretted that the comradeship which had won the greatest victory in Britain’s splendid story had not been persevered with until all the were over. The country at present was in a subnormal “We had,” he said “been by the bedside of a patient. The thermometer is not yet down, to a little black spot which means normal. We have been doing out best to promote recovery, and as he had said, "do not let us quarrel in the hospital until the patient is completely recovered.” He thought a great deal of the oyster, because it was the most attractive of -• molluscs and one that loved tranquillity.