BRITISH POLITICS.
IN THE COMMONS. | Unite* 4 Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) LONDON. May 19. In the Commons Mr Graham said tlie great hulk of Russian flutter imported here, was blended with otherbutter, and had not a separate retail price. Mr Neville Chamberlain, in moving the rejection of the Finance Bill, on the ground that it- does not ptov-de resources to balance the Budget, and inflicts'a hardship on ase tiou of income tax payers and also imposes a new tax, destroying confidence in all land transactions, said the Government were still silent on its proposals to deal with unemployment, and insurance fund, the debt whereon is now eighty-three million, ami rising at the rate of one im.il 1 ion weekly. The proposed land tax would have the same effect in reducing house building, ns ■Mr Lloyd George’s Act in 1909. Ministerialists wen- 1 working them y.\lves into a frenzy against the House of Lords, They were afraid to tell the country frankly that they were proposing to tax all land-owners and charitable trusts,
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1931, Page 5
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178BRITISH POLITICS. Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1931, Page 5
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