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(Received May 9, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 8.
Mr. S. Baldwin, replying to a question in the House l of Commons, said' that the average interest on Britain's debt, excluding floating debt, was about 4£ per cent. Including the floating debt it was less. Thin interest was practically all liable to income tax and supertax. If allowance was made therefor the rate) did not compare unfavorably with the rate Britain was paving the United States.
>ln the amateur golf championship Withers beat Sydney Fry, five up and four to play. Ouimet and Willing, who are regarded' as tlie» most dangeroms of the invaders, are still undefeated'. (Received' May 9, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, May 8.
The principal county cricket results are: Yorkshire 93 and 83 for one wicket, beat Flamorgan 63 and 112. R>. Dinner took six wickets for 26. Lancashire, 239 and 163, beat Oxford University,. 226 and 119. Hall, a South African test bowler, plaving for Lancashire nnder a birth qualification, took 6 for 23. Surrey 91 and 216 for five wickets (declared) beat Somerset 140 and 157.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16121, 9 May 1923, Page 6
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