Measure to Provide Funds for Research 1 London, Nov. 16.
The House of Commons to-day passed the first reading of a non-Party Rubber Industry Bill to provide f6r the collection of contributions from rubber manufacturers of Britain and North Ireland to the funds of the Research Association of British Rubber and Tyre Manufacturers, The introducer of the Bill said that by it rubber research would be entirely in the hands of those interested in rubber.
The Government's diminishing subsidy to the Research Association expired in 1929 and the Association were anxious to be firmly establish ed financially by then. It was pro posed that the funds be exclusively spent in research. The total cost. had been fixed at £15,000 a year to cover all expenditure, which would. be met by a contribution of one~ twenty-fifth of a penny per pound weight on all raw rubber retained, for use in Britain, The Bill is based on the Cotton Industry Act of 1923, which provided for the maintenance of the Cation-Growing Association.
There were only two large companies who had not agreed to the Bill in principle. The Bill would be limited to a period of five years.
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