TAX ON SILKS.
A MEMBER’S DEFENCE. LADIES’ STOCKINGS CITED. LONDON, April 30. In the course of the Budget debate in the House of Commons LieutenantColonel Guinness (Conservative), in defending the silk tax, denied that silk was anything but a luxury. It was, he said, mixed with woollens and cotton merely to increase the attractiveness. and it was in no wise economical to the poorer classes. The member cited as an example of the superiority of cotton the fact that ladies preferred that the feet and also the tops of their stockings, to which they hitched their suspenders, should not be made of silk. This sally was greeted with cheers and laughter. Colonel Guinness scouted the suggestion that the tax would appreciably affect industry. The speech made by Mr Ramsay MacDonald (Leader of the Opposition) was similar to that previously made by Mr Snowden (ex-Ghancellor of the Exchequer).
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16485, 2 May 1925, Page 5
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