2 MAY 1931, page 2

The Rest Of The Speech Was Taken Up With Matters

that we have discussed elsewhere ; the proposed Land Values Taxation, which is not of immediate financial importance, and the haling of tax-collectors within the control of......

Of Other Parliamentary Business, The Upper House Has...

with the Agricultural Land Bill. The clauses dealing with large-scale farming experiments and demonstration farms were defeated last week. The County Councils already have large......

Elsewhere In These Pages We Give Our Welcome To Lord

Irwin on his return home. Outwardly, at any rate, India has passed an uneventful week. Mr. Gandhi's pronouncements on the subject of missionaries, made public last week in Young......

On The Side Of Expenditure The Fixed Debt Charge Is

£355 millions, and Mr. Snowden expects a total expendi- ture of over £803 millions, more than £37 millions above the estimated income. The most swollen figure is £30 millions......

Rumania M. Titulescu's Resignation Was The Immediate And...

to his failure to form a Cabinet acceptable to the Nationalist-Peasant party, which has a big majority in both houses of Parliament. King Carol can hardly have been unaware of......

Australia A Fortnight Ago The Australian Senate Rejected...

Bill for the creation of fiduciary notes. A dissolution of the House of Representatives would have been the natural result, but Mr. Scullin wants to cling on until the Senate......