BRITISH BUDGET.
THE TEA DUTY-AND PREFERENCE.; COMPENSATION' FOR FOOD TAXES. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, July :25. In tho House of Commons 'tho.'Budget debate was resumed., .-Mr. J. Fitzalnn Hope, Unionist member ' for Sheffield Central, moved an amendment making tho duty on tea grown 'within tho-Empire four-pence. Itwas, rejected by 188 votes to .145. . Tho Under-Secretary ■ for the .Colonies (Colonel Seely) objected to a loss to tho Treasury of a million, and' a quarter pounds. He did not believe in tho possibility, of cementing, the Empiro by means. of . tariffs.' Mr. .Alfred' Lyttelton, Unionist member for St. George's, Hanover Square, argued that, preference would probably involve'a food tax, but' added that tho Unionists • were .pledged to- compensate the class mainly affected. He cited Mr. Lloyd-George as justifying'heavier burdens for Ireland' by the boon of old age pensions. .. «, . '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 879, 27 July 1910, Page 5
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136BRITISH BUDGET. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 879, 27 July 1910, Page 5
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