HOTEL PROPRIETORS PROTEST.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 113, 11 May 1909, Page 5

HOTEL PROPRIETORS PROTEST.

MR ZLLOYD-GEORGE AND HIS

CRITICS

((Received May 11, 8.10 a:m.)

LONDON, May 10,

Hcttel proprietors are protesting ■againslt the enormous increase in "licenses. They urge the taxation of tdiiiriks at 4£d in the pound. A.similar method is proposed for clubs, whidh, lit is proposed, shall pay threejpence in the pound.

.Mr Lloyd-rGeorge, in the coitrse .of ;an in.ter.view with a representative <of ;the Daily. Mail, said that the •.calculations were greatly exaggerated. 3ETe«did ncefccdesire to strangle respectable .hotels. ,He urged the public it© .-await ;fche details of the Finance Ball.