BRITISH ESTIMATES
LIABILITIES UNDER RAILWAY AGREEMENT.
(Roc. March 1, 8.5 p.m.) London, February 28.
In the House of Commons, Sir Eric Geddes (Minister of Transport), in the course of a statement in support of Sup plementary Estimates for £21,00(1,000, severing liabilities, under the railway agreement, said the provision was due to the trade slump and the coal strike (which had cost the taipayers £8,000,000), the Irish trouble, iand the increased wages. A curious 'feature of the debate wag Mr. Thomas’s championing the Government, particular!}’ in connection with the settlement of the railwaymen’s wages.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 134, 2 March 1921, Page 5
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