CANADIAN POLITICS
MR BENNETT TO RETIRE LEADER OF CONSERVATIVE PARTY' United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright OTTAWA, May 9 With a general election not more than a year or so distant, and hls health not robust. Mr R. B. Bennett announced recently his resignation from the leadership of the Conserva-
tiv© Party in Canada, to become effective on the election of his successor. That decisive step will be taken at a national convention in Ottawa shortly after the end of the present Parliamentary session, probably in June or July. There are reports that Mr Bennett will buy an estate in England and take up his residence there, but he has made no statement as to his plans. Mr Bennett, who as Prime Minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935, and since that time lias given vigorous leadership to the official Opposition in Parliament, was horn in 1870 and has been active in public life for 40 years.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20494, 10 May 1938, Page 7
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