HOME RULE
NEW ACT HELD UP
BREAKDOWN IN FINANCIAL
ARRANGEMENTS
.AMENDING MEASURE NECESSARY.
(UHITM PtBSS AISOCIATI6H.—O9PIRHUIT,) UffITItAUAN - NBW UIUXB CAIU AIiOCIATMN.)
(■Received April 18, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, 17th April.
It is rumoured that there has been a breakdown in the financial arrangements of the Home Rule Act, under which the first charge on Irish revenue was to be a contribution of eighteen millions towards Imperial expenditure, causing delay in fixing a definite date for the putting the Act into operation. It is stated that the Irish. Administration would be bankrupt, owing to the enormous increase in police expenditure, and Mihe decrease in revenue owing to the discontinuance of the excess profits duty. An amending Act regarding finance is conside:ed to be neoessaiy.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 91, 18 April 1921, Page 7
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122HOME RULE Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 91, 18 April 1921, Page 7
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