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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1928.
NO INCOME TAX COMPENSATION FOR
CUT.
MR. CHURCHILL ON HIS TASK:
BUDGET PROSPECTS.
Mr. Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. in a speech at Birmingham, dealt with national
finance.
LIFE.
SOCIALISTS' SUBMIT ROSY PROPOSALS.
INCLUDE FAMILY.
Startling proposals regarding workmen's compensation are made in a new Bill prepared by the Labour Party.
SANITARY BOARD.
NEW MARKET FOR KOWLOON CITY.
A number of routine Items werd discussed at the Sanitary Board meeting held at the Board's meet- ing room in the Post Office Build- Ing yesterday. There were present | Mr. W. J. Carrie (Chairman), Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Dr. S. C. Ho, Mr. J. P. Braga, Dr. G. W. Pops (M.O.H.), Mr. Wong Kwong-tin. Dr. S. W. Tso, Lieut. Col. J. S. Bostock and Mr. J. Watson (Secre- tary),
He declared that if he had the
The first provision is that the money it was not to the reduction State shall take over the insurauco
An announcement was made by of the standard rate of income of employers against workman's
the Chairman that the new market tax which he should in the first compensation risks. instance apply it. The local ratos. An initial loan is to be made in Kowloon City will be opened were a harassing burden on pro-to the Stato Fund by the Trea-in April. With regard to the al- ductive industry and agriculture, sury for the purpose of establish- lotment of stalla, a proposition of and public attention should being the fund. All premiums are the Chairmen that holders of pre- increasingly directed to them." to be paid into this fund and all sent food licenses should be given We had just passed through a expenses paid out of it, but "the first opportunity to bid for stalls tranquil year, said Mr. Churchill, State shall guarantee the solvency in the new market was carried. and to the great masses of the of the fund." A Beard of seven The hours of the now market were people, this period of recupera. (all paid) is to administer the fixed between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m., tion and of convalescence was in-fund. These members are to be the Chairman stating that those deed a blessed haven after an lawyers and one engineering, one were the usual hours during which ono | semi-urban. markots carried on exhausting and fearful voyago. medical, one financial, and
business. The world now seemed to be set labour member. tling down.
PROTRACTED NEGOTIATIONS
COME TO END.
Persone to be compensated are Now Mr. Arthur Henderson had to include members of the em- TANGIER AGREEMENT. said that a General Election this ployer's family living in his house. year would be "one of the most if they are in receipt of wages. xlaring betrayala ever perpetratedThe wago limit for compensation by any Government." "Let us is to be extended to £500 a year reassure this good man," said Mr. (It is now £350), and "an option Churchill, "that he is in no im should be given to non-manual mediate danger of having to face workers above that limit to insure his constituents. Obviously there under the scheme."
Ordinary can be no General Election in Insurance societies. ara ruled, out: the Government scheme is to be inclusive.
1928."
Com-
Watching the Revenue.
Rates of Compensation. "You will ask me: How is the Budget, getting on? Watching
It is suggested that four classes the movements of revenue and of disability should be fixed.. For expenditure is like watching a Permanent total disability close-run boat race. · At the pensation is to be a weekly pay ginning of the year our revenue ment for life equal to 75 per cent. cutter seemed a long way behind.of the average weekly earninga; There was, in fact, a deficit on the for permanent partial disability year of more than £150,000,000, the workman is to be paid the difference between what he did To-night it is about £95,000,000,
"I am therefore bearing up fair-earn and what he can earn; for ly well, but I am certainly not temporary disability these same going to make any prediction as to the order in which the rival boats will pass the line at mid-
London, Mar. 6. The placing of the signature to the Tangler Agreement terminates the protracted Franco-Spanish] negotiations on Spain's claim to the protectorate
or mandate, wherein Britain acted as a mediat- or. The next stage will be a four- Power conference to determine the conditions whereon Italy shall share in the administration.
The present Tangier Statute is the fruit of the discussions of the threo Powers only, as Italy was not invited to attend the Tangier Conference of 1923.
The visit of an Italian squadron to Tangier last year was a re- minder that she had not relin- quished her privileges under the payments are to be made so long old capitulations with Morocco. the disability lasts; and the The British attitude was governed minimum payment for total do by a desire to maintain Tangler's ability is to be not less than £international status-Reuter. night on the 31st. March."
a week. This la to be increased He had been criticised by Mr. by 50 per cent.. where it is neces- Snowden, who complained that sary for the workman to have the Government had not reduced someone in constant attendance. expenditure, and consequently
Funeral expenses up to a maxi- taxation, aa mucli as they oughtmum of £20 are to be paid, and to have done. "I think," com- mented Mr. Churchill, that about where a widow or invalid husband expenditure I shall have a some-is the sole dependant £1 10. a what better tale to tell when I open the Budget in April next, and, with your permission, I will keep that tale until then."
Sanguine Норев.
week for life is to be paid. Where there are children under 16 this amount is to be increased by 108. for each one, to be increased to 15s, in the event of the death of the surviving parent
children.
COLONY'S HEALTH,
ENTERIC FEVER MOST IN EVIDENCE.
The health return for the wook ended March 3 shows that there here five cases of enteric fover notified in Hongkong during that period, as well as two deaths, both victims being Chinese.
For the 24 hours ended on Mon
day, the return gave one Chinese ense of small-pox, and one caso of cerebro-spinal fever, also Chinezo. Thoro were two fresh сляев об enterio, both Chinoso.
Thoro was ono death from small-f pox in the period, 'and two cases of "You will, no doubt, say: What ments to exceed the average carn- nose death from the latter infection. In no case are the total pay-puerporal fover, as well as ono Chi-
of the future? And I shall по
ings of the workman, but the doubt say very little about it." above amounts are not to be re- The Chancellor proceeded:" I see duced below 2 where there is a however, that some people are beginning to talk about a reduc-surviving parent and one or more tion of sixpence In the income tax in the near future. Without wishing to lower your spirits 1 think I may go as far as to any that those who nurse these hopes are of a very sanguine tempera- ment, and I will go further and say that they must be people who take much more pleasure in build ing castles in the air than in add ing up figures in a ledger.
The best hope for the income tax payer lies in the improvement in national credit and in the con- version of our immense internal debt to a more favourable rate of interest.
"The great strikes and stop pages of 1926 have set the clock back. I must say that if I had the money it is not to the reduc- tion of the standard rato of the Income Tax that I should in the first instance apply it.
Women not Wives.
Then follows this provision: "Also, in the discretion of the Board, the widow's allowance may be paid to a woman not the wife of the workman who was living with the workman as his wife at the time of his death, and this even if the workman may have left a legal, wife surviving him. If such workman leaves children by the woman with whom he was living at the time of his death the children's allowances may, in the discretion of the Board, be pald to the mother for the benefit and maintenance of the children."
No action shall ile for the re- of compensation. All covery claims will be heard and deter mined by the Board, "whose deci- sion shall be final" and 'not open
"I said in Scotland in Septem-to question or review in any ber last that the local rates wore Court.
a harassing burden upon produc-
All these provisions are to apply
tive industry, and agriculture. I to all persons engaged in any argued that pound for pound they public or private enterprise, un- were a worse burden than the dertaking, or establishment what- soever within the limits of the Imperial taxes.
income referred to above, and ex- cepting persons employed In the
J
"I said then, as I say now, that I was not in a position at the mo- ment to make any positive, pro-Army, Navy, and Air Forces of
the Crown. posal and that nothing that I said must be taken as a pledge or promise. But I asked that public attention should, like the atten- roughly £3,000,000. He did not tion of His Majesty's Government, know any other way in which be increasingly directed to this that amount could be collected aspect of our affaire. Now I am with less harm to the country. It vory glad to see that my request diminished 'the volume" of belting. haa horno fruit both with the There were difficulties connected Socialist and Liberal oppositions, with the tax which time would "When you feel inclined to set cure, but would the introduction out upon a journey, there are al-of the totalisator, substituted for. ways two questions to bo con- the roar of the ring, make any sidered. The first is where do Berlous difference?. you want to go, and the second la how are you going to get there. As to the second question, we must see how the finances of 1928 and 1920 work out and how fast we
"The offieial newspaper of the progress in our recovery from the
Labour Socialist Party," said Mr. havoc of the great strike period.
"Nevertheless, I will go so far Churchill, "is the Daily Herald. as to say that if I had the money, I have before me a recent copy, which I havo certainly not at the of the Daily Herald. Column after, present time, an advance in this column is occupied by betting direction would round off with news, by racing tips and gambling; singular completeness the finan tranenctions of all kinds, and the clal policy of the present Parlia Daily Herald, Mr, Ramsay Mac- Donald's official newspaper, is mak ing a revenue, hot as I am doing: by penalising botting, but by, ald Betting Tax Yield. Mr. Churchill also referred to ling it and encouraging it and the Betting Tax, which yielded stimulating it. His own news
paper!"
ment."
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald had argued that it was wrong for the State to raise any revenue from any national habit which was in its tendency unhealthy.
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