LAND TAXES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 591, 20 August 1909, Page 5

LAND TAXES.

THE ASSESSMENT OF VALUATIONS. RIGHT OF APPEAL. CONCESSION BY THE GOVERNMENT. , (By jTcJegraph -I'ress Association -CopyrlEbt I (Roc. August 19, 11 55 p.m.) ' London, August 19. In tho House of Commons, in Committee on the land valuation clauses of the Finance Bill, the Government, as pieviously indicated, moved m amendment allowing an appeal to the High Court from tho decisions of tho, icfeieo. Tho amendment was agreed to

fTho Bill originally, provided for assessment of valuations for,lnnd tax purposes by Commissioners, ■ from whom there was an appeal to a referee, whose decision was to be filial: In a speech, the Lord Chjef'Justice inferred.tho uuoonshtutionality of such ■' a ■ proposal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. 'Lloyd-George' subsequently agreed to grant a" right of appeal from the reieree, hence the concession of un appeal to the High Court.] ' . ..■■ '

MINISTER IN PYJAMAS. London, August 18.

".■ The House of Commons/ sat for'eighteen hours discussing; the ■ Government Finance Bill; in committee, the sitting ending at 8:45 in the morning. - ■ '■, •'.-..:'. '••■ : .. /•

The appeal anco of Mr Winston Churchill, President 'of tho Board of Tiade, 111 slippers and pyjamas, with an overcoat, caused merriment among members, and evoked piotests from tho Opposition.