GEDDES ECONOMY SCHEME
TREASURY’S TARDY ADOPTION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 17,_ Tho ‘Daily Express’ states that Sir. Robert Horne (Chancellor of the Exchequer) informed the heads of all the spending departments that they must reduce tho estimates of expenditure for 1922-23 even below .the levels recommended by the Gcddes Committee. It is believed that the ambition of tho Government is to save enough money to enable a reduction to be made in the beer duty.—A. and N.Z. Gable. [Cabinet and Parliament carried out at first only two-thirda of tho retrenchment proposed by the Gcddcs Committee.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18050, 18 August 1922, Page 4
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96GEDDES ECONOMY SCHEME Evening Star, Issue 18050, 18 August 1922, Page 4
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