BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 91, 13 May 1909, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

TUK UL'UIiKT DEBATE. Received 12, U. 30 p.m. London, May 12. A long and technical discussion took place in the House of Commons on the duty on foreign bw.% club license, and land values' nud duties. Mr. Prettvman enumerated tlie cig u hcuvv taxes" borne by the land and the injustice of adding four more taxes. When'the incomes derivable from the land were, falling, he said, the real burden would not fall on the great landowners but 0.1 the owners ot small properties, who did not possess other resources. . Mr. Llovd-Clcorge accepted the Unionist suggestion re charges on beer so d Mi clubs, from threepence per pound on liquor fold to sixpence a pound upon liquor purchased. Mr. Marklmm accused the Government of preventing the House of Commons from raising the poundage owing to a fear of the enormous political influence possessed bv the clubs'. Several Commoners advocated poundage to an equal extent in respect of the licenses of public houses.