(Continued from page 7) for expecting further business recovery, if there were no set-back Therefore, he had avoided any measure which would have had al generally depressing effect on industry.
Sir John's announcement on the car tax increases surprised the House, and there- was general conversation among members, who obviously were work-"ug out increases in their own car axes.
Expleining the sugar duty, Sir John stated that the present duty on foreign raw sugar was equivalent to Qs. 4d, per cwt. The Empire preference duty would be preserved and get was twenty times that of Glad. Stone's of 1853, when Gladstone proposed to abolish the income tex.
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