BRITISH POLITICS.
SPEECH BY MR ASQUITH. I GOVERNMENT'S POLICY OUTLINED. Received 17th, 1.1 a.m. London, January 16. The Rt. Hon. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the course of a speech at. Lancaster, s;tid coal rose owing to the enormous industrial activity of the country. Bread had risen because of the temporary shortage in the world's harvest. The Education Bill, he said, would be short and simple. An old age pension system must be built gradually with a regard to the country's financial exigencies, and, as far as it was derived from taxation, it must be a SffienV whereas all classes, including workers, sliould make a just and adequate contribution. Upon those lines the Government Intended to proceed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 318, 17 January 1908, Page 2
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118BRITISH POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 318, 17 January 1908, Page 2
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