SPEECH BY MR ASQUITH
LONDON, January 25. Mr Asquith (Chancellor of the Exchequer), speaking at Norwich, said the Government's generous and indulgent facilities in regard to denominational instruction would not be repeated. Its policy would be to put the nation first and the sections afterwards. Regarding old-age pensions, he said he did not ihink that any satisfactory scheme could be based on a contributory system, but he did not favour the granting of pensions at a certain age regardless of need or other conditions. He urged that the system must, from the beginning, be untainted by the humiliations attending the poor law. He denied .that the Liberal Administration desired to -injure any class, but said he desired to assert the overriding claims' of the whole community against all particular class interests.
A dozen suffragettes were ejected from the meeting.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 19
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139SPEECH BY MR ASQUITH Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 19
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