WARTIME DUTIES TO CONTINUE
OPPOSITION IN THE HOUSE OP COMMONS. (Rec. July 9, 7.30 p.m.) London, Ju!ly 8.. There was considerable opposition in the Houso of Commons to tho proposal in the Finance Bill, to continue - ur.til August, 1920, the war.timo duties im-. posed in 1915. Mr. Austen Chamberlain agreed to limit the reimposition' 1 till May, 1920, when lie would explain his fiscal policy. .There was no intention of now. raising a controversy as war-time conditions wero still prevailing. A Labour demand for the abolition of the tea dutv, as bearing over-heavily on the poorer classes, was negatived—Aus.. N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 245, 10 July 1919, Page 5
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102WARTIME DUTIES TO CONTINUE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 245, 10 July 1919, Page 5
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