THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21266, 21 February 1931, Page 14

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 19. (Received Feb. 20,- at 11 p.m.) In the House of Commons the Minister of Agriculture (Dr Addison) told Mr Pybus that cattle from Ireland were graded, and then given the home-killed mark. Mr Pybus: In these circumstances should not Australian and New Zealand meat be entitled to be marked “ English ” ? Mr Addison: But Irish cattle are imported alive and slaughtered here. Answering another question, he said that the total subsidy on home-grown beet sugar since February 10, 1930, amounted to £22,157,727. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Philip Snowden), in answer to a question, said that the French debt to Britain in 1920, when the repayment agreement was made, totalled £000,000,000, the value of which in annuities calculated at 5 per cent., was £227,000,000. On the later basis the agreement remitted 62 per cent, of the debt. Reference to this had already been made in France in connection with the claims of English holders of French bonds. Mr Snowden further said he doubted the practicability of imposing higher taxation on incomes from foreign taxaments other than in Britain and the dominions and colonies.