THE BRITISH BUDGET.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 297, 19 June 1909, Page 5

THE BRITISH BUDGET.

Press Assn — By telegraph — Copyright. LONDON, Yesterday. \_Mr Asquith and Mr Lloyd-George informed a- deputation from the- Lib-eral-"Cave," including Sir J. Dick-son-Poynder, Messrs E. Tennant and Raphael Cox, that the Government was fully determined to persevere in its land taxation proposal but would favorably consider amendments designed to_meet special cases oi hardship. Numerous Liberal and .Labor Commoners have memorialised Mr Asquith in favor of the proposed land taxes. The "cave" advocates a tax upon gotten instead of ungotten minerals, objecting to tlie complicated and irrihituig system of taxing undeveloped land, claiming that there is no country in the world where tho land tax is on a. double and variable assessment. Mr Lloyd-George promised an important concession affecting the increment of the tax on the lands of universities and colleges.