IMPERIAL POLITICS.
THE ARMY BILL.
Prtss Association—By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, July 10.
Lord M-.thuens motion omitting clause 2 of th? Army Bill, forbidding County Arsocia, ions to giv;? financial aid to corps i:i elementary schools where boys are under the age of years - , was carried in the- House of Lords by 130 vol {-s to 31 votes, after Lords Roberts, Rosebery and Lantdowne bad supported it. The Earl of Portsmouth implied that the motion was a breach o? the financial rights of the House of Common:^ LAND VALUE.-. Received 9.51 p.m., Julv 11th. LONDON," July 11. Th? Lar.d Values in Scotland Bill has b'en read a ;veond iiuio. A motion by Mr Remnant for the rejection of Ihe measure was negatived by 294 volt s to 76 votes. Mr Balfour warned the iron.-.' that if the principle of rating on the unearned increment. was adopted in Scotland it would extend to England. Evidently the Oowrnnnru contemplated a fundamental and immen.-e change in the incidence of local taxation. Thr-y had adopted the teaching of Hviiry George by treating .Scotland Cl- tiie txprfim.ii'al ground for their wild crochets.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13336, 12 July 1907, Page 5
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185IMPERIAL POLITICS. Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13336, 12 July 1907, Page 5
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