HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LATEST CABLE NEWS
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LIBERALS ALARMED. (Received this day at 0.45 a.in.) LONDON, July L The Government defeat in the Commons was the seventh since the session opened. Directly the result "as announced the LiU-rals were panic stricken at the possibility of the Government's resignation, and they rushed to the rescue and gave tin* Government a majority of sixty-eight. The question at issue was the liability of performances for charity to pay entertainment tax, the House voting for their exemption hut it is doubtful if the Liberals would have voted if they had realised the consequences. 'I he Liberals want an early election even less than the Labourites. In any case the point was of trilling importance, only £IOO,OOO sterling of revenue being in question.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1924, Page 3
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132HOUSE OF COMMONS. Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1924, Page 3
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