MATTERS OF MOMENT.
SPEECH BY MR ASQUITH,
Received January 17, 1.1 a.m. LONDON, January 16. The Hon. H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the course of a speech at Lancaster, said that coal rose owing to the enormous industrial activity. Bread had risen because of the temporary shortage of the world's harvest. The Education Bill would be short and simple. The old age pension system must be built gradually with due regard to the country's financial exigencies; and, as far as it was derived'from taxation, it must be a scheme whereto all classes, including the workers, made a just and adequate contribution. Upon those lines the Government intended to proceed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9030, 17 January 1908, Page 5
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112MATTERS OF MOMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9030, 17 January 1908, Page 5
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