BRITISH POLITICS
CHANCELLOR'S CHALLENGE TO CONSERVATIVES FINANCE BILL PASSES SECOND READING TUP A by Elec. Tel C,my MU' * (Received Alay IS, 7 p.m.) LONDON. Alay IS, lu tho House of Commons, a Labor motion .for the rejection of the Finance Bill on the grounds that it left tho heaviest burdens on those least able to bear them, was defeated Tho Chancellor, Air Chamberlain, iu reply to some Conservative opposition that the taxation on heavy oils was a burden on industry, said if, as suggested, there was a general desire for the substitution of a tax on foreign sugar and tea, he would sympathetically consider it. Tho Bill was read a second time by 36S votes to IS.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11948, 19 May 1933, Page 5
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