THE BUDGET CONFLICT.
REPORT STAGE CONCLUDED
REMARKABLE EFFECTS OF LIUENSING CLAUSES.
DECREASE IN DRINKING
Press Association—Electric Telegraph— Copyright. (Received Last Night, at 5.10 pin.) LONDON, Yesterday. In the House of Commons, the report stage in connection with the Budget has been concluded.
Mr Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that the Budget had had an extraordinary effect on the habits of the people. The consumption of beer nad decreased. Drinking in some districts in Ireland had declined by seventy per cent., in some parts of Scotland fifty per ceut., ami in Glasgow thirty-six per cent. He now anticipates that the consumption of spirits will decrease by over twenty percent. This, said Mr Lloyd-George, may mean a loss of work to a few hundred, but it will, on the other hand, bring enormously increased comforts and happiness to thousands of homes. Mr Austen Chamberlain will move the rejection of the third reading of the Budget.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9698, 1 November 1909, Page 5
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