The Budget.
THE LICENSING DUTIES.
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.
London, October 5. A strenuous debate took place in the House of Commons on the schedule dealing with the new licensing duties.
The Nationalists complained that distillers and small brewers in Ireland would be ruined. Mr Healy reproached the Govern** ment for not placing countervailing dtsty on imported German whiskey. Mr Asquith replied there were small brewers in England, and it was impossible to discriminate between England and Ireland. The » Nationalists voted against the Government throughout. The Government’s majority once fell to 35.
In view of the many changes in the Finance Bill, Mr Lloyd George promised to submit a revised statement of revenue which the Government had to collect under the Bud* get.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4472, 7 October 1909, Page 3
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