THE BRITISH BUDGET
INTENSE PUBLIC INTEREST.
EARLY MORNING QUEUES.
LONDON, April 28. The greatest interest was taken in Mr Winston Churchill’s Budget speech. A man possessing a ticket to the Strangers’ Gallery arrived at 4.45 a.m. in order to obtain a front seat, but was told to come back in the afternoon. Fifty members of the House of Commons formed a queue to await the opening of the doors at 8 a.m. The _ first of them had arrivel at 5.15 a.m. Sir Harry Brittain cycled to the House at 6 a.m. and filled in the time entertaining his fellowmembers with exhibitions of trick cycling in the Palace Yard. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 10
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