BYE-ELECTION

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1930, Page 6

BYE-ELECTION

COMPLICATED SITUATION

(United^Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Recqiyed this day at 8 a.ni. r )g:j'if| t LONDON, Sept.jpi';l An intriguing' political mriseni! ?eicrSouth RaddingtJm^^Wj^ ■]! Beavsrbrsqkife Trade 'Party threshed 1 fo ; own candidate ps*Specti^|» CopSqvqtjiYq Li&iaifd* . f gramme which Sir Herbert duly adopted. -At a, lively . meeting whprer at "the answers "were considered so' salisfactpiy as- ( npt; ;r tp question- T ,-the iVifiriing of ah Empire free trade rival, Lidiard, however, unsatisfied the United Empire Party, wherewith Lord Rotlimere is associated and they adopted -Mrs Stewart Richardson. I Meantime Sir Neville Chamberlain, Chairman-; of the Conservative. Party, Has " written to Lidiard saying the. answers: at/tW'm'betihg appear to have p;one far beyond the expression of 30C a' pefsonal iintdryiew. Headr-i quarters support could not ibe accorded unleas rheßvas prepared*to \siippt>ft the official policy. ?I. v Lidlai'H rfeplied-that-Bh'ere'was' hotli- : ing in hits policy to impair the unitj of the Conservative Party. Iliejre-.tlie . raatter restsvat :preserft. / , has‘"’returned from' Aix flefi Laynsl / 'tions oF'his resighatipn. f The, “News Chronicle’’ is: of opinion that Liberals will make a mistake if they assume that nothing can be done to develop the Imperial market. We cannot afford to sacrifice a vast foreign trade. ,to the possible extension of Dominion trade, but that is to say we ought not to do all in our power to extend inter-imperial trade.