ROYAL ECONOMY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 August 1921, Page 5

ROYAL ECONOMY

. BENEFITS THE EXCHEQUER.

6Y CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT j I T' , LONDON, Aug. li. I 1 -in the House of Commons Mr. Austen Onambarlain moved the second reading , of a Bill authorising the Duchy of Lan- , caster to realise capital of £100,000 in order to meet deficits in the Civil List Since 1919. Mr Chamberlain said that during the I war His Majesty was the most promi- ] nent pioneer m economy, and actually succeeded in 1916 in effecting savings tor the benefit of the Exchequer to the extent of £100,000. He had refuseS to i , sanction any action involving a charge on the public funds, and even suggest- ■ ed_a diminution of the ceremonial, j which the Government advised His , Majesty was not prudent. Stringeni j , economics were effected, however in the ' , -Koyal household, and others were con- i templated. | The Bill passed its second reading.