... The most important of them is time abolition of the duty on Empire and toreign tea, which should mean a reduction 111 retail prices of from 314. to 4d. per pound. No alteration is made in the toffee and coma duties. The public looked for some popular ...

... stamp duty on newspapers. The demand was for a Free Press. The Radical was for a Free Press and the Conservative was against it, and the battle raged as fiercely as it rages at the present time as to whether bread shall or shall not be taxed. The flogging ...

... needs a lead to rid itself of the passport system altogether, and the abolition of visa is a good beginning. The fight against passports began long ago. So far back as 1858 the stamp duty on British foreign passports was reduced to six pence. Sweden and Norway ...

... the stamp-duty on amalgamations arguing trait it should.be retrospective to cover the last financial year. Members had in mind the recent unification of the chemical indus. tries. Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke (C.. Cardiff Beath I think the abolition of ...

... Advertising by Wireless Telephony Lip-stick and other make-up mai have to pay stamp duty In the future. A Select Committee which has been considering the question of me medicine stomp duties recommends in a report that cosmetics advertised as remedial should be ...

... irrespective of financial standing. who showed the necessary ,qualifications and aptitude. Premiums, articles and heavy stamp duties should be abolished. Thanks were voiced by Alderman E. D. Rowlands. headmaster of Broad Street Schools. ...

... estimated assets of the debtors was about 5A,000,000. _ Other resolutiond adopted urged the abolition of the oorperation profits tax and a reversion to the ld. stamp duty on eeipts and cheques. There was some criticism against the early closing of shops, and ...

... shows scaffolding erected in the nays to facilitate examination of the existing fabric t 3 bear the weight of tho tower. Stamping Out Overcharges PEMBROKE borough Chamber of Trade recently wrote to the chairman of the Pembroke Dock Market Committee (Mr ...

... committee has earned our gratitude for its insistence upon the positive• duty of Christians to work for the abolition of war as an instrument of national policy, and for emphasising the duty of Christians to work for the removal of economic and political causes ...

... collect the tax by means of stamps. urged that efforts should made to collect the increased taxes without the dislocation of business which would entailed by sudden demands for large sum* money. On the subject of the abolition the halfpenny post, personally ...

... rejected letters. Questions cannot answered by post even when a stamped addressed envelops enclosed for the purpose. VINDICATION BOARDS OP GUARDIANS. Sir, —As 1 see that the cry for the abolition of boards of guardian;- which has been ! heard from time to ...

... last met Parliament has passed the Pharmacy and Medicines Act 1941, one of the results of which will be the abolition of the Medicine Stamp Duty, as and from the 2nd September next, which, as far as this company is concerned, amounted last year to £166 ...