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Part Played By Merchant Princes (Received 2, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 1. Mr George Riddle, in his presidential address to the Co-operative Movement at Newcastle-on-Tyne, said: “The House of Commons is fast becoming a place for regulating trade. Merchant princes are not in the lobbies, but in the House itself, waiting, watching and demanding. They are beggars on a grand scale. Grants, subsidies, concessions and levies might not be irregular, but they are an unhealthy influence on public life. Trade and commerce, in the next financial year, will receive from the public funds £116,000,000 more than in 1926.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 7
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100COMMONS CRITICISED Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 7
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