BRITISH POLITICS.
THE BUDGET DEBATE. LICENSES AND LAND TAXES. SHARP CRITICISMS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received June 10, 8.15 a.m. LONDON, June 9. In the House of Commons, Mr H. W. Bottomley, Liberal member for South Hackney, and Mr H. Cox, Liberal member for Preston, made sharp criticisms of the Budget, particularly the part of it dealing with liquor licenses and land taxes. Mr Bottomley suggested that a transfer stamp should be imposed on stocks and shares, claiming that it would realise twenty millions per annum.
MrE. G Pretty man, Unionist member for Chelmsford, dealing with the impossibility of estimating the value of unworked minerals, instanced the case of Rosyth, where the] Admiralty paid Lord Linlithgow £15,000, and had since quarried £IOO,OOO worth of slone,;'and not a tenth of the total quantity had yet been quarried.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3212, 11 June 1909, Page 5
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138BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3212, 11 June 1909, Page 5
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