QUESTION TIME.
BANK OP ENGLAND GUARD. (TTKITEB PBMS kSBOOATIOS— VZ KJCTKC TKLXOBAPS —COPTSIOBT.) LONDON, July 9. In the House of Commons Mr Tom Shaw, Minister for War, informed Mr Oliver Baldwin that for 150 years the War Office had supplied a military guard for the Bank of England as the Government's bankers and the custodians of the country's gold reserves. Its position was obviously different from that of other banks. Mr Shaw said that he was willing to consider any usefcl suggestion concerning the abolition of the guard. Death Duties. Mr Philip Bnowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in answer to a question, said that he would consider whether ?* would be in the public interest to permit the Government to accept land in payment of death duties. Army Bations. Mr Sh&w said that the Government wa3 not proposing to change the method of tendering for ration beef xor the Army. In the last half-year 33 per cent, of the meat had been supplied by the Empire.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19668, 11 July 1929, Page 13
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