The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, December 17, 1910. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 932, 17 December 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, December 17, 1910. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Borough Council will hold a special meeting on Monday night to deal with the municipal hall question. So far as we are able to ascertain, the Council are almost unanimously in lavour of the erection of the hall, as are the ratepayers. We believe a halt in expenditure will be called at any sum in excess of We are inlormed that for the amount mentioned a very desirable and well-appointed structure can be erected to meet all requirements for many years to come. The question oi a suitable site will also be decided on, and seeing that the Council have several very desirable sections centrally situated, this should not be a very serious obstacle. It is hoped the Council will not be bulldozed into selecting a back street locality.

Out and away the most interesting man in me British Parliament has been at last re-elected—Mr Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is not exactly a boy—but he is very young for the great portfolio which he holds, being only 46. Before Mr LloydGeorge, five years ago, was made one of the official leaders of the party, he had made himself, with Mr Winston Churchill, one of its unofficial leaders. The nimbleminded little Welshman could not be suppressed either by his own side or the other. He began as a hot-headed Pro-Boer. He likened the treatment of Boer women and children by the English to the treatment of the Cubans by Spain. And it was only his brilliant speeches against the Licensing and Education Bills that saved his reputation from the effect of these extravagant attacks. Once in office, at Board of Trade, and at the Imperial Conference, he immediately made an impression. When he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Asquith relieved him ot his speech on his first Budget- It was a more or less ordinary budget. Mr LloydGeorge took the Budget speech himself the next year. That Budget was one of the most startling that was ever proposed. Mr Lloyd-George’s rise within a year or two from the man who .had to be helped with one Budget to the man who broke up Parliament with the next one is, probably, unparalleled.