MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL
SECOND READING CARRIED. PROTEST BY LORD INCHCAPE.By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 3, 5.5 p.m. London, Dee. 2. The House of Lords passed the second reading of the Merchandise Marks Bill by 50 votes to 26, after Lord Inchcape, who recently joined the Conservative Party made a vigorous denunciation of the Bill. He said it was preposterous, and Would involve an increase of June - MIIIIIMIIIIWIW
lIIMIIIIIIIIM tionaries who fatten on the people. He was convinced that if the Government interfered with the free interchange .of commodities Great Britain would become a mere, cypher, and taxation would wipe out the country’s wealth. The proposals in the Bill could only sound right to those who knew little of business. Ear] Beauchamp congratulated L»rd Inchcape on hie speech, and asked him if he was going to vote against the Bill. ...... Lord Inchcape replied: “I will not support the Bill, but 1 am not going to vote against it.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1926, Page 13
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