A HAPPY HOLIDAY

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1930, Page 6

A HAPPY HOLIDAY

EARL BEAUCHAAIP RETURNING HOME. AUCKLAND, Nov. 17. Earl Beauchamp, Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords, arrived 'by tlie Niagara Qi is morning. He has had a two months’ holiday in New' South Wales, of which State he was Governor from 1899 to 1901, and is leaving by the liner to-morrow mornihg en roiite to Vancouver. “Before ‘returning to England I am going to spend seven weeks in the United .States,” he said. “I intend visiting ;San Francisco, Washington, and New York, joining the. Aquitania j;here on January 17th for Southampton.”

Lord Beauchamp paid lie had spent two very happy months in Australia. He had been received more than cordially by the officials of New South Wales, and by friends old and new. He had been greatly impressed with the progress and improvements tnat 'trad taken place in Sydney since he was there 30 years ago. He was .particularly pleased to find that in spite of tlie enormoup increase in the city’s population, building had proceeded without in any wav impairing the beauty of Sydney Harbour. It was unfortunate, lie added, that bis visit should have been made during a time of depression, but lie hoped that under-consumption by other nations was the cause of Bad times rather than oYer-prodm-tlon. and that as prosperity came to ‘them, Australia would also benefit. Lord Beauchamp declined to comment on political matters in Australia or New Zealand. He said be deprecated such expressions just as he deprecated similar expressions in England by visitors from the Dominions. They never did any good, and were generally vitiated by ignorance of the real situation. He expressed tlie opinion, however, that Great Britain was still far from the taxation ».f food, and said that any attempt to

impose such a policy would make the Empire unpopular with the British electorate. For that reason as well ns for others he was opposed to Lord Benverbrook’s Empire Free Trade movement. / >