RELIEF OF RATES

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1906, 17 May 1928, Page 3

RELIEF OF RATES

BRITISH BUDGET SCHEME BENEFIT TO INDUSTRIES' (Auat. and N.Z. Cable). Loudon, May !4. Jii the House of Commons, Mr Williams stated tliait thy Board of Trade ehi ma ted that the various trades would receive the foliowing amounts yearly in relief of rates under the Budget scheme : Engineering £2,000,000 to £2,000,000, shibpuilding £400,000, chemicals £OOO,OOO, eoid £2,500,000, cotton spinning and weaving, £l,-500,000, wool manufacture £750,000, iron and steel £550,000, breweries and distilleries £400,000. AID TO SOUTH WALES The Daily News states that following on a. committee of members of the House of Commons, coalowners and miners are memorialising Mr Baldwin, [jointing out the grave risk of distressed areas in South' Wales being lellt, derelmb as the result of tens of thousands of additional unemployed. The* Government is drawing up af scheme for the relief of railway and dock rates to assist the coal industry pending Afr. Churchill’s general rating relief [Vans.