BRITISH POLITICS.
PROPOSED LEVY ON CAPITAL. London, May 16. The House of Commons, by 157 votes to 25, rejected a private measure enabling local authorities to undertake public services and trading without Parliamentary sanction. The Government opposed the measure on the ground that the Bill was so The Free Liberals like the Laborites have adopted the principle of a levy on capital in their notice of motion for the rejection of the Budget. BUDGET PROPOSALS. London, May 18. Mr. Churchill, at Dundee, said the Budget proposals would not add to the cost of living or impose a burden on us or the Dominions, who had sent, not . mere handfuls of soldiers, but great i armies. The Dominions would regard the proposals as a kindly act; we should not treat them as a question of principle, but as a measure of Imperial diplomacy, designed to express gratitude to the \ Dominions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1919, Page 5
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