19 JUNE 1947, page 3

At Westminster

T HE Committee Stage of the Finance Bill is an annual event at Westminster, which brings with it the agreeable possibility a concessions on taxation by the Chancellor and—to......

New Prices For Old

A jungle of nonsense has grown up around the Ministry of Labour's cost-of-living index and there will be no regrets that it is now being cut away, by the introduction on June......

The Car-tax Change

The Chancellor of the. Exchequer's deCision to adopt a new basis of taxation for private motor-cars is belated but welcome. Argu- ment and discussion about this has been going......

Empire Timber

Shortage of timber has already killed the 1947 housing programme, and it is a serious handicap to exporters, who cannot obtain a sufficiency • of the packing cases which, before......