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The fact was that lease owners would be, by any change in long
standing policy, beneficially treated, he added.
"Let us not imagine that those lease owners who are also landlords
will pass the benefits of any such change on their tenants."
Landlords would, in general, continue to charge their tenants
the highest rents the tenants were willing to pay and the law permitted,
regardless of the rents that the landlords were paying to the Crown,
the Financial Secretary said.
"Sir, subject to these remarks, I support the motion," he concludod.
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