SPECIAL DEFENCE TAX
SUPPORT BY CHANCELLOR CRITICAL CONSERVATIVES LABOUR CENSURE .MOTION (Reed. June 1,2 p.m.) LONDON. May 31. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Chancellor of (lie Exchequer, Sir John Simon, defended the special tax as a national defence, contribution. jlc said that the concessions in a full year would cost about .£5,000.000. '1 lie Lax yield would be about ,£15,000,000. Dr. Hugh Dalton (Lab., Bishop Auckland) moved the rejection ol the Finance Bill. Sir John Wardlaw Milne (Con., Kidderminster) and several other Conservatives criticised the lax. The debate was adjourned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19339, 1 June 1937, Page 6
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