UNEMPLOYMENT
PLANS FOR. RELIEF IN ENGLAND. PREPARATION OF BILL. Rugby, November 21. Land officers of the Crown are preparing a Bill designed to enable local authorities to dispense with certain formalities in undertaking their employment plans. When the Bill becomes law these authorities will be relieved of the necessity of promoting special Acts of Parliament before certain works may be undertaken. The Lord Privy Seal, Mr J. H. Thomas, who in a statement to the Press makes this announcement, adds that progress with employment schemes is being made in many directions and expenditure to the amount of between £40,000,000 and £50,000,000 had now been sanctioned. He again expressed the conviction that the expenditure of the export trade lay at the root of the matter, and in this connection he was discussing various questions with the motor trade. He said he was conferring with a view to finding out by what means other than the horsepower tax the same revenue could be secured with more advantage to the motor industry. The newspapers interpret this as an indication of intention to abolish the horsepower tax, which encourages the production of small engined cars unsuitable for export, and replacing it with increased petrol taxation.
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Southland Times, Issue 20940, 25 November 1929, Page 7
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201UNEMPLOYMENT Southland Times, Issue 20940, 25 November 1929, Page 7
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