SAFEGUARDING INDUSTRIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 August 1921, Page 5

SAFEGUARDING INDUSTRIES

LONDON. August 12. The_ Speaker ruled, that the Safeguarding Industries Bill was a money Bill, precluding the House of Lords from amending or rejecting it.

LONDON, August 12. On the motion for the third reading, Mr Asquith moved the -rejection of the Safeguarding Industries Bill. He said he found himself in a difficulty as to whether the measure was a serious fiscal proposal or a political freak Bill. Perhaps, not intentionally, it was directed against their enemies, but it was more against France than any other Power.

Mr Chamberlain twitted Mr Asquith with accepting the Paris economic conference's resolutions drafted by Mr Runciman as a bit of bluff against Germany. Mr Asquith. in effect, now said be had hoowinked his colleagues over the resblutions.

Mr Baldwin said that the fact that the British Parliament uassed such a Bill should be a warning to foreign countries that Britain was not going to juggle with their currency to the disadvantage of our trade. The Bill was read a third time by 176 votes to 54 votes.