FREE STATE PENALISED.
SPECIFIC DUTIES.
APPROVED BY THE COMMONS
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY,
United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 17, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, May 16.
The resolution imposing speciflo duties against Free State stock of 12s per head on sheep and lambs 25s per head on cattle under six months, 50s on cattle up to 15 montns, and 120 s per head on cattle of two years ana upwards, replacing the present impost of 40 per cent, was approved in the House of Commons by an overwhelm'Jng majority, the voting being:— Ayes .... —. 223 i., , Noes 40 ; -i. Majority 183 ■ Mr James Maxton (Labour member for Bridgeton (Glasgow) and Sir Stafford Cripps (Labour member for Bristol East) expressed the Labour Party’s dissent with the Government’s continuance of the economic war.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18947, 17 May 1933, Page 8
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