IMPERIAL POLITICS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13954, 14 July 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

M 1 D-D.ISRBVSiIIKE SEAT. TAXATION OF LAND. Press Assooiation-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, July 12. For tlic Mid-Derbysliire vacancy the Liberals have decided to support Mr Hancock, the Labour aiid Socialist candidate. The Surveyors' Association severely condemned the tax on undeveloped land which would force land upon the market before it was wanted.

The Liverpool Law Society has issued a memorandum showing the enormous cost of making valuations. Sir 0. Dilke, speaking at a miners' demonstration at Forest of Dean, stated that the ungotten minerals duty will beulropped. He objected to the sub«titiution of a tax on royalties, and preferred that the mines should be taxed as undeveloped land. THE BUDGET DEBATE. THE LORDS ON TRAINING. Received 10.35 n.'n . -Tulv 13th. LONDON, July 13. In the House of Commons, during the Budget debate, Mr Lloyd George nromisnd to exempt small properties fiem the i'lTPmct dutv.

I" the House of Lords, th<\ Bishops of Exeter °ud Bntli J<" r d Roberts' Training B'"Lord L»Piis defended the. present system. The debate was adjourned.

Mr Will Crooks, a member of the House of Commons, sails 011 10th September, and wijl spend three weeks in. Canada mid several weeks in Australia starting Imcls liome at the end of December. He hopes to learn something of the spirit of the peoples oversea*.

Lord Fitzwilliam informed the "Times" that probably, in the event of the Finance Bill nassing, be will sell a groat deal of property. He has already arranged to transfer his investments abroad.