CHANNEL TUNNEL

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1930, Page 3

CHANNEL TUNNEL

CLOSE VOTE IN COMMONS,

United Press Association—By Electrn Telegraph.—Copyright:)

LONDON, July 1

In the House of Commons,

hurtle moved a resolution in favour of permitting private enterprise in he building of the Channel Tunnel. " n j,f () f the money lie .said,'could Ir raised in France, so that tlye animal cost to Great Britain lor the fiist five* vein’s would only be half a million -is,-ling, and for .the, next, three years Four, millions per annum.

Air Ramsay MacDonald. Prime Minister said he had consulted the leaders of tlie other parties, Air Baldwin -d Mr Lloyd George. Both had agreed with the Government’s decision .against the tunnel. He said that personally he had favoured the Channel Tunnel till 1924, but lie had how reached the conclusion that if it were built, it would make tremendous changes politically, economically and

Militarily, which he could not undertake. Private construction, in any ease would he objectionable, lie said. Snob an enterprise should-be in the bn inks of the people whose fate hung upon it. Mv Thurtle’s resolution was reunited by a majoritv of only seven. Mu> votimx being:—for the nation 182; against 170.