BRITISH POLITICS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 13 January 1913, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

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SPEECH BY LORD HALDANE

EDUCATION THE MOST URGENT NEED.

(Received! Last Night, 5.5 o clock.) LONDON, January 11. Lord Haldane, speaking at Manchester stated 1 that the land question required much treatment, and should be approached with great caution. It was still in the inquiry stage, and the moment for making some suggestion had not yet amved with the Government. After consulting with the. Premier, the Right Hon. D. Llovd Ccorge, and, the Right Hon. J. A. Pease, President of the Board of Education he had decided that education was the most urgent of the great social reforms. Elementary, secondary and higher education were in a chaotic condition, and a great step forward must be taken. He was authorised to announce that the Bight Hon. D. Lloyd George was willing to throw himself whole-heart-edly into the question. It had been shown that the outlay under the Insurance Act was considerable, but it would be reproductive. What was being done for the cominor generation must not be at the expense of the ratepayers. It was a national system, and must be supported by the ■whole community. The starting standpoint must be that the rising generation must l>e made fit to receive education. The Government had been busy with experts for some time, audi they saw the path along which they were going in this colossal undertaking. TARIFF REFORM A MEMORIAL OF CONFIDENCE.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, January 11.

The whole of the Unionists, with the exception of five, have signed the memorial expressing confidence in Mr Bohar Law a.s leader of the party.

The Pall Mall Gazette states that the memorial enables a tariff policy to be instituted immediately the Unionists are returned to power. Mr Bonar Law, in receiving.the memorial'at Standfortb. said:""! will consult Lord Lansdowne, and reply at the earliest possible moment."

Mr Ronald McNeill. Unionist member for East Kent, has announced that 98 per cent of the Unionists .supported the memorial.

Mr Jesse Ceilings, Unionist member for the Bordesley Div ; '."><n of Birmingham, in an interview, stated that if Tariff Reform wa« advocated minus food taxes, it meant disaster to the party. He did not. believe that Mr Joseph Chamberlain would he likely to niter his original orogramme. Xnr would the neople of Birmingham hn misled by the wiles of anti-food. ff'xeT"?.