6 MAY 1925
The British Empire Exhibition Guarantee Bill, which increases the Government guarantee to £1,100,000, passed second reading in the House of Lords after discussion, in which Lord Buckmaster expressed doubt as to the advisability of guaranteeing so large a sum.
The financial resolution for the purposes of the Gold Standard Bill was agreed to in the House of Commons, and the Bill itself passed Committee stage and third reading. Discussion of the Rent Restriction Continuance Bill took place on Report and third reading, and the measure was advanced those stages.
Mr Baldwin, speaking at the Newspaper Society dinner in London, said there was never a time when the production of opinion was more energetic and its free flow more unimpeded, its effectiveness more certain than to-day.
Close by the country churchyard of Gray’s Elegy at Stoke Poges, Viscount Grey of Fallodon accepted for public ownership a large meadow which is the “lea” of the poem, and contains a stone monument to Gray’s memory. In accepting the gift, Viscount Grey said that the Elegy was a perfect work of literary art.
A meeting of members of Convocation at Oxford passed a resolution adopting Lord Milner for the Chancellorship of the University, and pledging support to his candidature. Lord Milner’s health continued to be good.