IMPERIAL BUDGET.
TRANSFER STAMP ON STOCKS AND SHARES.
ESTIMATED TO REALISE £20,000,000. , . . United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, June 9. In the House of Commons, Mr H. W. Bottomley, member for South Hackney, -and Mr H. Cox, member for Preston, made sharp criticisms of the Budget, particularly in regard to liquor licenses and land taxes. Mr Bottomley suggested a transfer stamp on stocks and shares, claiming, that this would realise £20,000,000 per annum. Mr Pretty man, dealing with the impossibility of estimating uilworked min>erals, instanced Ilosyth, where tho Admiralty paid Lord Linlithgow £15,000, ;jind had since quarried £IOO,OOO worth <of stones, not a tenth being yet quarried.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2525, 11 June 1909, Page 5
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106IMPERIAL BUDGET. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2525, 11 June 1909, Page 5
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