QUESTIONS ANSWERED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, May 16. In the House of Commons, Mr L. C. M. C. Amery, Secretary for the Dominions, in answer to a question if the statutory maximum expenditure under the Empire Settlement Act had been reached, .said that the statutory total would be £16,806,343 to March 31, but the actual expenditure was £3,866,061. COOK BICENTENARY. Colonel Headlam, Under-Secretary for the Admiralty, said that arrangements would be made for one of his Majesty’s ships to be off Middlesborough for the celebration of Captain Cook’s bi-centen-ary in October, AMERICAN BEEF AS NEW ZEALAND. Colonel Headlam told another questioner that a contractor who recently Supplied South American beef as New Zealand had been struck off the'Admiralty list of those eligible as tenderers. There was no suggestion that the cold stores from which the meat was supplied were in any way blameworthy. RATING RELIEF SCHEME. Viscount Curzon, Junior Lord of the Treasury, said that the railways’ benefit from the rating relief scheme amounted at least to £4,000,000 a year.— Australian Press Association—United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18466, 18 May 1928, Page 10
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