TAX ON LACE.
OPPOSITION TAUNTS MR BALDWIN.
PROTECTION PLEDGE BROKEN
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Jhne 17.
The House of Commons, by 260 to 148. added a clause to the Budget imposing 331- per cent, lace duty. Air. Lloyd George. Mr. Snowden and other members of the Opposition taunted the Government, especially Air. Baldwin, with breaking an _ election pledge not to impose protection. The steel industry has lodged an application similar to that lodged by the lace industry under the Safeguarding of Industries Act. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 June 1925, Page 9
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