HOUSE OF LORDS.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, June 13. When the House of Lords was in committee on the Franchise Bill, Lord Newton moved an amendment to Clause One, fixing the age of the new voters of both sexes at twenty-five years, instead of twenty-one years. Ho said that he feared the day when /the Labour Party might say: “Let us take the vote from all of the people above fifty years, and bestow it on the bright young things of fourteen and fifteen, who are properly schooled in Communistic principles.” Ho said his amendment would keep the number ol electors within manageable limits. Viscount Cecil opposed the amendment, as it would, be said, destroy the Bill.
Lord Gainsford said that there was no demand for this Bill. The matter should be left to the existing electorate at the General Election to decide. The Lord Chancellor urged the House not to kill the bill by passing the amendment. The amendment was defeated by 87 votes to 41, and the committee stage concluded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1928, Page 2
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