BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1924, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

Australian and n.z. cable association. LAIiOUK'S .NEED. LONDON. Jan. 10. '1 ho I ‘Daily Herald's” political correspondent says :■ -ft is laid down hy Act of Parliament that not more than five of the principal secretaries of State may sit in the House of Commons, hut there are -ix such ullires, intmely, the Home. !''oreic,n, War, Colonies. India, and air secrel a tie Therefore, one miM he a Peer. Mr Ramsay MacDonald must, decide tviietlier there is already a. Labour Peer riualified to hold such ofliec, or must create a Peer from the Lahriur Memhers: of the House of Commons. In any case, it would he lie/e-sary to have .Lahour representatives m the House oi Lords to conduct, the business and answer attacks. It may he thought desirable to appoint two or three new Poors. Labour must work the machine as it finds it, until it can he altered.' WOMEN Ms.P. LONDON, Jan. 11. The Women's Election Organisation banqueted the women .Members of .he House of Commons. Miss Susan Lawrence (Labour!, was the only absentee. The company numbered 200. Mr T. P. O’Connor, .M.P., wire Ili - on ly man present. Lady Asfor told Mr O'Connor:— ‘‘Von are the Eather of the House. Tam the mother. We have to run our 'family together.” Mi ss Margaret Ihmdfield (Labouri declared that it would soon he shown that fundamental chances in Government could occur without violence i r bloodshed. The speeches foreshadowed co-opera-tion ol the women Commoners regarding home question-.