BRITISH POLITICS.
THE LICENSING BILL. A MEMBER AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. Received May IS, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, May 18. Mr S. H. Whitbread, Liberal member for Huntingdon, addressing his constituents with regard to the Licensing Bill, said that the Bill was neither moderate njr rational. He must, he said, uppuse it contrary to the pledge given to his constituents, and was therefore prepared at any moment to resign. Mr Whitbread added: "I am not a Chinese cheap labourer, and decline to be kept in a compound and let out to vote exactly as I am told." The Liberal Executive at Huntingdon recently asked Mr Whitbread to retain his seat, and released him from his undertaking in reference tc the Bill.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9092, 19 May 1908, Page 5
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119BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9092, 19 May 1908, Page 5
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