IRISH TENANTS
MAXIMUM AMOUNT PAYABLE. THE GOVERNMENT’S DECISION. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright-; LONDON, December 22. (Received Dec. 22, at 11 p.m.) In the House of Lords the Marquess of Salisbury announced, witlj, regard to Irish tenants,' that the Government had decided that the absolute maximum payable to the tenants shall be £400,000. Though the total recommended by the Grants Committee is largely in excess of this the Government has now decided to pay the first £SO of all awards in full, 50 per cent, of anv excess up to £IOOO, and thereafter 30‘ per cent. Th e money would be paid forthwith, the new total being £625,000, which is £225.000 in excess of tK'e original maximum.—A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20289, 23 December 1927, Page 9
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