IMPERIAL POLITICS.
UNIONISTS AND "WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. INCOME TAX. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright
London, June 29.
Sir John Simon, Attorney-General, in a speech at Manchester, said that the Government, in 1915, intended to increase the tax on unearned incomes to sixtcenpence, also to impose a supertax and a super-supertax.
Twelve thousand from' the East End attended" a protest meeting at Victoria Park against the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. The speakers included the 'Duke of Devonshire, Lord Robert Cecil, the Bishops of St. Asaph and St. David's. They reiterated that it was the intention of the Unionists to wipe the Bill from the Statute Book.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 34, 30 June 1914, Page 5
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101IMPERIAL POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 34, 30 June 1914, Page 5
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