From the point of view, of influencing the General Election,
the most important of Mr. Churchill's conces- sions, ih our opinion, is the granting to agricultural land and buildings of immediate relief from the remaining portion of the rates. berating, to judge from all the signs, is going to be so great a success, that it is a thousand pities that the derating of industry as a whole cannot be effected till October. There is, of course, an immense amount of work to be done in cataloguing those produc- tive industries which will be entitled to relief. If the work is done by October tst the officials will not only have done all that can be expected of them, but will be entitled to great credit for their despatch. Fortunately for agriculture the necessary information had been pro- vided by previous partial derating schemes.
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