LONDON NEWS.
A BILL REJECTED
FREE LIBERALS AND LEVY ON CAPI3&L.
BY CABLE—PRESS ABSMIATION-COPYBIGHT (Aus.-N.Z. Cafcle Assn.) (Received May 28, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 16 (delayed). lhe House of Commons, by 157 votes to 25, rejected a private measure •enabling local authorities to undertake public services trading without Parliamentary sanction. The Government opposed the measure on. the ground that the Bill was co drastic. _ J?ree Liberals, like the Laborites, nave adopted the principle of a levy on capital in thetr notice of motion for the rejection of the Budget. '
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 28 May 1919, Page 7
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89LONDON NEWS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 28 May 1919, Page 7
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