THE BRITISH BUDGET.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 289, 10 June 1909, Page 5

THE BRITISH BUDGET.

UN WORKED MINERALS. Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. j (Received this day, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, yesterday. I In tho Bouse of Commons, Messrs • H. Bottomley and H. Cox made sharp criticisms of the Budget, . particularly the liqiior licenses and land taxes. ! Mr Bottomley suggested transfer stamps ou stocks and shares, claiming they would realise 20 millions per annum. Mr Prettyman, dealing with the impossibility of estimating unworkod minerals, instanced Rosyth, where the Admiralty paid Lord Linlithgow £15,000, and- had since quarried £100,000 worth of stone, and not a tenth was yet' quarried.