BRITISH BEER DUTY
PRO POSED REDUCTION REJECTED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 9. By 301 votes, to 71 the House of Commons last night on the report stage of th e Finance Bill rejected an amendment for a reduction in beer duty, which, it was represented, is now fifteen times as high a-s in 1914.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Neville Chamberlain, pointed out that a revenue of £10,000,000 would he involved in the proposed reduction. [Revenue from the duty of beer in Great Britain during the past five years hag- been as follows:--
| 1927 ... 78,763,480 1 1928 ... 77,800,471 1929 ... 70,846,978 1930 ... 71.254,674 193i ... 69,269 } 299]
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1932, Page 8
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