BRITISH POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1932, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

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HANDING OVER SEATS. (British Official Wireless.) RUBGY, September 30. The King and' Queen returned to '-j • London early this "morning by the V. Royal train from Ba’lluter, on the con- - • ' elusion of 'their . V'isit-'tb Balmoral^ ■ ' They , drove ‘- tb Buckingham Palace shortly ten p-elock. ' ' ? ! - The Prime'."’Minister (then drovfe to the Palace and remained with the, King for over an hour. It is understood that the retiring Ministers, Viscount Snowden, Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir Archibald Sinclair, will '.surrender their seats of office 1 o to King to-morrow, when his Majesty will hold a Privy Council and.' hand over the seals to. the new Ministers of •the Government, whose appointments were announced last night!' '• Great, interest was shown' A bj 7 the. newspapers in the announcement 'that Mr Richard Butler will succeed'"Lord Lothan as ■ParliamentAiy Under-Sec-retary at the India Office. Horiis _a son of Sir Montague Butler, of ilie : Government of the Central Provinces, and has a wdie knowledge of'lndian'Affairs ahd the workng of the India Office, In the National Government- Mr-Butler has acted as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary, of India; He was ' a member of the Indian "Franchise Committee, of which Lord Lothian was chairman. ■' Ft. " " fiU A, further Cabinet meeting was to-day, ■at which it"is understood that questions relating to India and disarm- ’ • aments were considered. No further meeting of Cabinet'i'si ; expected to take • place until the week after next. , The Prime Minister leff 1 London tonight for the north, and will be away •until the end of next week. • ! The Foreign Secretary," Sir " John A Simon, is returning; to Geneva on Sunday and will 1 fly all the Way in an Air Force machine; . The King has approved of'the follow- • • ing appointments to the posts rendered -vacant by the Liberal resignations from the Ministry:— t Sir F.- G.. ; Penriy (Conservative, previously Vice-Chamberlain, I to be Co nr roller of his Majestry’s V Sir Victor Warrender (Conservative), previously one of > l the s Junior Lords of the Treasury, to he Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesty’s Household; ‘ 1 Mr Ernest Brown (National Liberal) formerly l Parliamentary Secretary to 1 the Ministry of Health, to be Secretary V-: of the Mines Department. • . Mr Geoffry Shakespeare ..'(National 1 Liberal), formerly one of the 1 Junior Lords of the Treasury, to be-Parlia-hientary Secretary to the Minister of ■ Health, ' i V a-' ■ Mr James ißlindell (National Liberal), Junior Lord of the Treasury. Morris Jones (National Liberal), • Ulsmtont, . m*j The office of Assisi ant-Postmaster-General stifl remains: to co filled. VISCOUNT SNOWDEN. ATTACKS OTTAWA. ~ LONDON, September 30. In a broadcast ; ; .speech. Viscount Snowden declared that- the British delegates had made a yery bad bargain at Ottawa. “We have gained practicall nothing and given away-‘much,” . he' said. • V; ■ ;•; k"( : ■ The agreements when publishedwould expose the. hollowness-n o f the claim that Britain would .gain any substantial reduction in tariffs/ Vhe continued. Where tariffs bacl been reduced they still remained prohibiive and were still much higher. in many cases than the foreign tariffs. It was easy to make a show, of reducing .'tariffs when they were as high as 400 per cent. - “‘We remained in the Government in the hope that the Ottawa Economic Conference would take steps for the -V greater freedom of world trade,' but Ottawa has banged, bolted and barred the door on any such'hope,” concluded iVscount Snowden. Mr Baldwin, who led the British delegation to Ottawa, followed Viscount Snowden, He; suggested that the people's judgment, of Ottawa be suspended until the facts were known. It was a funny’thing that the only resignations over the agreements, throughout the Empire had occurred in Australia, because the tariffs had been reduced, and three , in .Britain because they were raised too high. “I maintain that Ottawa has lowered tariffs and / has introduced the principle of reasonable and not prohibitive tariffs,” he said. He regretted that the Liberals had resigned',b but there was no ciisis. The Government was solid and united and would -see the job through. s■> • ' ■ „ i INCREASED CUSTOMS. (Received .this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. The increased customs, the result of the change in a fiscal policy were £17,393,000/ '* ' .... THE FLU-BUG A. The flu-bug is knocking round, font 1 don’t let him get a,, footing. Pulmonas sucked slowly, reler.se powerful antiseptic vapours which destroy flu’ genus. Take Pulmonas, the protection which you need at this season of the year. Pulmonas give quick welcome relief. Use them frequently. Is Gd - !. and 2s fid all chemists and stores, ■