HOUSE OF LORDS.
ICSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. HEREDITARY TITLES. LONDON, May 9. The Commissioner read the first .time Lord Poiisonbv’s Bill to terminate hereditary titles, introduced under a, ten minutes rule. The Bill allows a holder to renounce his title and no heir or heiress born after the Act is passed shall he allowed to .succeed to a Peerage. /Received this dav at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. Lord IMnsoiiby claimed the lull erred on the side of moderation. Hereditary principle was a survival of medievalism. The dignity of merit and distinction was rapidly disappearing from tlie peerage, and party payments, beer and whisky wore taking their place. Hereditary titles minister-
ed to vanity, encouraged corruption and led to snobbishness and llunkoyisin. Lord Ponsonhy added that (fie Labour Party when it; came into potver, would not confer hereditary honours.
The Speaker inadvertently forgot to put tie question to the noes, to the motion was registered as c.nrrMd icm
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1923, Page 3
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