NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1929, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

LABOUR AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS Lord Thomson who is again the Air Minister, writing in the “Labour Maga •/line” on the House of Lords says:— “While many members of the Labour Party believe in the single chamber Government, few will deny the need for a revising chamber without the power Of rejection which would cause undue delay. Under our'present system, -the House of" Lords contains ; a number off authorities on practicallyevery ' aspect .of " national life.' It is, in fact, a House of Experts, whose collective experience covers Foreign and Imperial Affairs, Defence, Finance, International Statute and Common Law the administration of the Established Church and Local Government. As such it is admirably qualifed for’ the task of revision, a'task for whose performance it but seldom has the time.” ARCHBISHOP AND DISESTABLISHMENT. “ We must not feel that because a particular measure has been rejected by Parliament we should immediately demand Disestablishment,” said the Archbishop of York in a recent speech “I do not think that what has happened has revealed to us that we are in a situation- with which we cannot and ought not to rest content. We must find ways of modifying the situation, but we must not hurriedly break up one of the few connections that still exist between certain states • 'of .life in order that the 1 Church may have within this present period fuller means of expressing itself. To my mind Disestablishment would be something we should regret most profoundly as a 'further step in the secularisation of the State. Quite frankly, I do not think it matters to the Church one way or another whether it is established or not. B.ut it is certainly true that for the full influence of the Christian spirit in our country there must b$ a fr.ee exercise of their own choice in iU’i.tt'-'-s spiritual by those who constitute the society of the Disciples ofj Christ.” J