IN THE COMMONS
0 COST OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright; .
LONDON, Nov. 3
In the Commons, in answer to a question, Mr Hudson stated since the armistice the total - payment's fbori: the employment insurance fund, were y2ffi6,000,000. " Additionally, administration cost £6T,500,000, interest on dbbt while £61,050,000were paid in out of work donations. Air Thomas, when asked: whether he was aware that quantities of arms were being imported into the Irish. Ereu State from Russia, said the importation of any arms by any dominion, wasa question for the Government thereor. The “Sim” learns that Australian meat interests emphatically-protest, at attempts, to raise tariffs against the Empire, and contend this is-preclude* 3 hv the Ottawa Agreements. Tariffs alone cannot raise prices-, . which at present are at bankruptcy levels. Hbme-grown beef is five pence per pound, the lowest in living memory. New Zealand mutton gt two pence; scarcely pays the cost of shipment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1932, Page 6
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152IN THE COMMONS Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1932, Page 6
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