BRITISH PARLIAMENT
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]
BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, March 9
In the Common*, Air Thurstlc, seeking leave to introduce a Bill making illegal the agreeiuut to recommend the conferment of a title ot honour in return for donations to party funds, declared that the original of Mr Lloyd George’s fund was largely a sale of honours. The practice existed previously as a retail business. The Coalition made it wholesale. Unclean gold, which thus came to the Lloyil George fund caused deep convulsions in the Liberal Party. The Bill compelled the parties to publish periodical lists of subscriptions. The sale of honours was corruption on a grand scale. It was an offence to buy a vote for half a crown, but the law permitted the sale of a peerage for forty thousand sterling. The Bill was read a first time.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1927, Page 2
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