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BRITISH PARLIAMENT

OPENING CEREMONY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 10. The King and Queen drove from Buckingham Palace to Westminster for the State opening of Parliament. Along the roads lined with litiarcrlintel! and cheering crowds, Their Majesties rode in the great gold State coach, drawn by eight bay horses, and escorted by Royal Horse Guards. The Royal coach was followed by a carriage containing the Royal household. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York also attended. The House of Commons overflow from Government benches to the OppcuVioh side, was-almost ats. impressive a,s the diminutiveness ot the actual Opposition, when the House re-ns-after the King’s • speech in the House of Lords, from which Mr Maxton, Mr Kirkwood and other excommunicated Labotirites were absent they preferring to sit in the deserted House of Commons. Mr Churchill was deprived of the Opposition front corner seat below the gangway. Both • members for the City of London. Messrs Grenfell and Bo water, exercised the historic right to sit"oiT ' the

Treasury bench, Mr Geoffrey Lloyd €? the tallest mepaber; -in'moviiig the ad: dress-in-Reiply, rejoiced 'that at last the Government was able to. go . Jo. Ottawa Conference with a free hand / to dismiss greater uiiity '/off Enipire trade, opening a new epoch in Imperial ~ history, A National Labourite V' (Mr Flint)' on seconding, hoped that new ties would be formed at Ottawa. Personally, he had spent four years hard work on a New Zealand farm, where he learned to- manage a ' six-horse team, and where the people made him most happy. Tlie first meeting of the new Cabinet was held this morning. The Prime Minister, speaking at the Guildhall banquet, said-. .“Europe requires a. period of political peace to enable it'to adjust its economic life, and! to put. an end to enforced obligation, which cannot be fulfilled’ withy':"' out injuries to every- nation concerned.” "" ■■ ■ J" . ;

Mr Thomas will leave next month for South Africa,' proceeding-later to Australia and New Zealand,- and visiting Canada on the homeward route; ( LONDON, r November 10. ' In the House of Lords, the King’s speech was read by the Lord Chancellor. The Prince of Wales, ' Duke 'of York and Duke of ' Gloucester’ 1 were present. An Address-in-Reply was moved hv Lord Radnor. v.:/; Lord Ponsonhy, speaking" for the Opposition, announced that Lord. Parmoor had decided do” retire from the leadership of the Labour Party in the House of Lords, and that he (Lord Ponsofiby), had accepted the position. Lord Hailsham replied for the Gov©rmpent.

. -’V, ADDREBS-IN-RBPLY debate. RUGBY, November 10. „ The" Kiffg’s speech was debated in both Houses of Parliament. In tlio Houser: of Commons, Mr [Lloyd Conservative member for the Ladywood Division of Birmingham, moved the Address-in-Reply to the King’s gracious speech, and Mr iv - J. Flint (National Labour) 1 seconded. Mr Geroge Lansbury (Leader of the Oppdsiton) in his speech, declared thatt" the Labour: Party refused to regard this Government as being a National Government,, and the ' Party would put before Parliament the proposals of Labour for dealing with :the existing crisis, so ■ that tme nation could judge between Labour’s actual proposals and the misrepresentation of those proposals that there had been during the election campaign. ‘ ' ‘ '“A - The Primfe Minister then replied. He said the Government would follow precisely on the lines of the manifesto upon which it won the election. The problems to be faced-were .those of tlie currency and to balance trade, an aim that the last Government took , the first sltep to secure by balancing the budget, / and this wohld be steadily pursued. At the end of the year/,the • Chancellor of the Exchequer, .would be - able to declare the, nation .would not he living on capital,-or,. borrowing. The industrial positaorL, : said Mr MacDonald showed hopeful signs of improving and of Britain getting a. bigger share of the world’s trade, hut the unsatisfactory side of it was that there was no sign of any expansion in world

trade. It would be. necessary, to .get in contact with the . nations primarily concerned to try and get arrangemnts made with regard to the reparations, the war debts, and .so on. “For myself.” he said, “I place the very highest importance on the - visit of-•<■->the French Prime Minister to the American President. I hope/it may .lead, first of all, to an understanding. between France a nd Germany., hut. in the end of a. full, final understanding to which' other nations involved must' b e a party. That is the policy of the Government.” . With regard to. the balance of trade, tariffs, and dumping, the Prime Minister said the Government stuck to the manifesto asking for powers to consider th© question, investigate and act. A measure was already in preparation. and before the House rose, if the Government thought it necessary, it would make ireeiommendatirmg and- ask for. powers. . ‘ Deferring to the changes in the currency values, lie said the Government world keep its eve on profiteering, and if the powers already taken were inadequate, it would seek more. Mr MacDonald stated th© programme of

business for the present session included the Statute of Westminster, ‘which carried into effect the agreement that was come to with the Dominions; an Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, and a London Transport Bill. The Indian Round Table Conference would go on, and be hoped sufficient agreement would be reached to enable the Government to ’ produce its policy in legislative form.

THE CABINET

AIOR E APPOINTMENTS

LONDON, November 10.

Additional appointments to the Ministry are: Attorney-General, Sir W. A. Jowitt; Solicitor-General, Sir T. 1 risk ip ; Lord Advocate, Mr M. Craigie Atchison; Solicitor-General for (Scotland, Air W. G. Normand; PostmasterGeneral, Sir Kingsley Wood; Minister of Pension?, Major G. Try on.; Minister of Transport, Air P. J. Pyhn's; Chancellor of 'the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr J. C. C l . Davidson; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Captain TI. ]). Alargesson-; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Major Walter Elliott; Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, Lord Stanley; Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Earl do ta Warr; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, Major Hore Belisha ; Under-Secretary for Air, Sir P. Sassoon; Under-Secretary to the Colonial Office, Sir Robert Hamilton; Under-Seciretary for the Dominions, Air Mrilcolm MacDonald; UndevASac-retai’y-to the Foreign Office, Captain R, A, Eden; | Tinder-Secretary to the Hcime Office, ' Major Oliver Stanley; Under -Secretary ,to the India Office, the Marquis of Lothian; Under-Sec-retary for Mines, Mr Isaac Foot; Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade, Major D. J. Colville'; Undersecretary to the War Office, Earl Stanhope; Financial Secretary to the War Office, Alajor Duff Cooper.

THE NEW POLICY. LONDON,- November 10. Speaking in the House of Commons Air Geo. Lansbury said that the King’s Speech was an innocuous document, full of emptiness, and not containing one single concrete proposal. This Government had obtained office by means of chicanery and fraud and by an abuse of the broadcasting service, thereby raising an unjustified panic, Rit. Hon. R. Runciman, lie said, had stooped to the lowest depths by his foul untruth that the people’s savings in the Post Office were in danger, when he well knew that as long as there was a penny in the country lh<| people’s (savings were -safe.

Mr Afaxton said that this year’s opening speech was the first speech for years which did not contain a single proposal" for the amelioration 6f the lot of the workers, though ten million must he voted for the Government. The debate: was adjourned.

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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1931, Page 5

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BRITISH PARLIAMENT Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1931, Page 5

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