RATE RELIEF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 7

RATE RELIEF

THE BRITISH SCHEME MACHINERY OF THE BILL [ Australian Press Assn.—United Service ] LONDON, Jun c 6. . In the House of Commons the Rt. Hon Neville Chamberlain, moving the second reading of the Rating Valuation Apportionment Bill, explained that it dealt with the machinery of the rate relief scheme. Mr Philip Snowden moved an amendment objecting to the unfair discrimination between enterprises and socialities preliminary to subsidising certain industries, at the expense of the householders, shopkeepers and distributors. Taking industry as a whole the proposed rating relief averaged per cent of the value of the total output. This would do lift re to lessen unemployment or to stimulate industry. The Government’s rate relief scheme was a pure and simple system of subsidies giv?n irrespective of needs. Brewers, whose profits had increased 150 per cent since 1920, would be relieved to the same extent as the shipbuilding industry. Sir Kingsley Wood, replying to the debate, said that the representatives of necessitous areas would have no cause for camplaint when the Government’s proposals were conisdered in tho autumn.