HOUSE OF COMMONS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. THE LUXURIES TAX. A .31E X 1)31 ENT DEFEATED. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 13. 31 r Shin well, in the Commons: In Committee on the Finance Bill, moved 1,0 abolish the import duties imposed in 1915 on luxuries, including motor cars, clocks, watches, cinematograph lilin and musical instruments. Sir Joynson Hicks replied that the duties yielded £2,500,000 yearly. No complaints had been received from either traders or consumers, and the Government saw no reason to alter the duties. 3lr Asquith said the question of revenue did not; arise as the duties were imposed solely to limit Britain’s imports in war time to necessities owing tho shortage of shipping space. Their retention now was a deliberate violation of 31. r .McKenna’s assurances in 1915 that tho duties would only be imposed for tho duration of tho war. The amendment was defeated by 238 votes to lf>4.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1923, Page 2
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157HOUSE OF COMMONS. Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1923, Page 2
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