THE BRITISH BUDGET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 82, 3 May 1909, Page 2

THE BRITISH BUDGET.

PRICE OK LKJUOH RAISED. DROP IN MOTOR OMXIUCS SHARES. CONFLICTING POMTICAL OPINIONS. ~, Received Hay 2, 4.30 p.m. u London, May 2. Owing to the liquor licenses lieer nan S | been increased a half penny a pint and (j spirits a penny a glass. £ There has been a heavy fall in omni- f, bus and motor slums. h The unionists in Parliament have up- u pointed four eomniittees to prepare a re- i port and amendments to the Budget, It is considered Mr. Lloyd-George has utterly ignored tin l balance between di rect and indirect taxation in order to serve a party purpose. Several complaints arc made that the r Budget is conjectural as to its yield. . It is persistently reported that Mr. Lloyd-George anticipates a large surplus j in 11)10, enabling him to remove con- t siderable taxation and then appeal to the country. • e Mr. C. F. Masterinun, Secretory to tile Local Government Board, speaking at { Stratford on-Avon, said the Budget was the biggest instrument of social reform ( ever devised, and n triumph for socialism. Every glass of whisky drank would add a halfpenny for a Dreadnought.