IRISH FREE STATE

Evening Star, Issue 21079, 16 April 1932, Page 13

IRISH FREE STATE

ABOLITION OF OATH FATE OF BILL DISCUSSED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, April 15. (Received April 16, at 10 a.m.) The ‘ Daily Mail’s ’ Dublin correspondent says it is understood that when Mr De Valera introduces the Oath Bill in the Dail on April 20, Mr Cosgrave will move postponing it until the British and Free State Governments inquired into the reactions on the Treaty. The Bill is unlikely to pass the Senate, where Mr Cosgrave’s Party has a majority of staunch Treaty supporters. BUTTER EXPORT BOUNTY PROPOSED DUBLIN, April 15. (Received April 16, at 11.20 a.m.) A Bill is to be introduced in the Dail on the 20th inst., providing for a bounty of 2d per lb on exported butter by nieans of a levy on butter production. It is believed here that the prices on the British market will touch low levels this season; consequently the need of assistance to dairy men is urgent. LONDON, April 15. (Received April 16, at 11.40 a.m.) Assuming that the Irish butter export bounty becomes law, butter traders do not expect it to affect the London price or the sales of Australian butter. The Irish authorities made inquiries into ,the working of the Australian bounty scheme, on which their own is based; consequently, it is believed that the only effect will be an increased price to the Irish consumers, with consequent benefit to dairy men, though all will share in the payment of the levy.