TWO OPPOSING MOTIONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 114, 31 May 1937, Page 7

TWO OPPOSING MOTIONS

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Objections to The Finance Bill

(Received 31, 1.0 p.m.) RUGBY, May 30. When Mr Neville Chamberlain 's Government meets in the House of Commoris on Monday, its first business will be the second reading of the Finance Bill, which will be moved by the new Chancellor, Sir John Simon. Two motion3 for the rejection, of the whole Bill have been tabled. The conventional Opposition motion is in the following terms: "That the House cannot asseut to the second reading of a Bill which, in a time of peace and rising prices embodies an unbalanced Budget, thereby promoting further ancreases in prices and depressing the already low (standard of life of pensioners, unemployed, wage earners and other persons of'small means; aiid which fails to deal adequately with profiteering in armaments or to raise an equitable share of their cost from those most able to bear the burden." The other motion which has been tabled by eight back-bench Conservatives reads: "That the House cannot agree to the second reading of this Rill until arrangements have been made for a further investigation into the effoct of part 3 (national defence contribution) upon trade recovery and expansion, and upon ^employment, and until the views of those ehgaged in trades and businesses affeeted have been fully ascertaiined and reported." The tabling of the motion followed a meeting of Conservative members of the Finance Committee at which strong criticism of Mr Neville Chamberlain 's amended proposals for the national defence contribution were voiced.