NEW IRISH DUTIES
APPROVED BY COMMONS LABOUR’S PROTEST Received May .17. 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 16. The House, of Commons by 223 votes to 4(1 approved the Irish duties after Mr. J. Maxton and Sir Stafford Cripps hud expressed Labour’s dissent from the Government’s continuance of the economic war. The Treasury on May 8 issued a notice imposing a specific duty of 12s a head on Irish Free State sheep and lambs. The duty on cattle under six months will be 255; to fifteen months. 50s; two years and upwards, 120 s a head. The duties replace the existing 40 per cent, impost.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 7
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