BRITISH POLITICS.
THE DEVELOPMENT BILL. CONSTRUCTION OF MOTOR ROADS. SEEKING A MOTIVE. United Pro: I Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received September 20, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, September 19. The "Spectator" endeavours to furnish a reason for the proposed construction of motor roads under the Development Bill by representing that Mr Lloyd George desires to nationalise the railways, and hopes ultimately to se:ure that enci by encouraging motor traffic to compete with railways. This, the "Spectator" suggests, would lesson the value of the railways, and thereby induce the. shareholders to sell at an easy figure. MR ASQUITH'S SPEECH. Received September 20, 11.40 p.m. LONDON, September 20. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Birmingham, declared that Mr Asquith's speech in reply to Lord RoseberyJ was of the kind a lawyer made in defence of a criminal. Lt was difficult to imagine anything less calculated to arouse enthusiasm.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9600, 21 September 1909, Page 5
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143BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9600, 21 September 1909, Page 5
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