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DUTY ON TEA.

BRITAIN'S FINANCE BILL DEBATE.

TEA FROM CHINA.

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had often reason to complain of the treatment it received from the Customs.

Restrictions and inter- ferences meant that the cost to the trade had to be passed on to the consumer."

Mr. Brown (L., Leith) said there In the House of Commons the tea duty at present, because was a special case for reducing cently in Committee on the Fin- ance Bill, Mr. B. Riley (Lab., the trend of wages had been down- Dewsbury) moved an amendment ward in recent years, and tea was to Clause 1, with the object of re-largely consumed by the workers. Dr. Vernon Davies (Com. Roy- ducing the tea duty from 4d. to ton) said the Labour Party would 18: per pound.

He said the real aim of the be acting more as the friends of amendment was to challenge the the workers if they discouraged tea drinking, instead of encourag- the Government whole policy of regarding the taxation of commo-ing it, as they were doing by this dities for household use, which, amendment.

Mr. W. Paling Lab., Doncas- for the purpose of national taxa- tion, was Inequitable and unneces- had stated that he was going to ter) sald the Financial Secretary

sary.

It was not an ad valorom tax, have an inquiry into the increase but a definite tax per pound, so of tea imported from foreign that, in the case of the cheapeat countries as against tea imported teas, which the poorest have to from British possessions, which buy, it represented as much as 25 enjoyed a preference, but he after to 28 per cent. tax on the price of their tea. It might be argued that the actual tax paid was not large, but it represented from 148. to 178. per annura per household, which was a heavy burden for the poor and the unemployed,

tion?

GREAT DISCOVERY.

FOSSILS WHICH INDICATE MUCH.

A B

PRE-CONCEIVED IDEAS.

In simple language Professor Sir Edgeworth David told a meeting of the Royal Society a little about his recent discovery of fossila of pre-Cambrian life in South Australia-a discovery which will probably shake to the foundations accepted geological theorlea.

"I feel that I ought to kick myself for not finding out there things 30 years ago," he said. "It just shows how one's eyes might be blinded by pre-coneefy-: ed ideas."

remarkable is the

are Bo

The discovery means a complete readjustment of ideas concerning the beginning of life on the globe. Up to now, Cambrian fossils have been the earliest known, but these wards got up and said that he did go back a long way before them. mean to have an inquiry at all, What is more and tried to get out of what he fact that many of them had said. Were they going to highly developed-they have climb- have another crisis on this ques-ed a long way up the evolutionary tree-so that the beginnings of Mr. Pilcher (C, Penrhyn and life may have been millions of Falmouth) said it was a remark-years before scientists had dreamt. THE CHEAPER GRADES.

That, in turn, may completely Mr. Gilett (Lab., Finsbury) sup-able fact that the tea duty, with ported the amendment, and called an 800 million Conservative Bud-upset theories as to the actual age attention to the fact that the im-get in 1927, was lower than it was of the earth, while, it in the pre- ports of tea last year amounted with a £200 million Liberal Budget Cambrian era life is found in cer- a detain forms to be more highly de- to 450,000,000 lb., an increase of 9 in 1914. There had been

crease of 10,000,000 lbs. in the veloped than that of the Cambrian millions over 'the previous year. But while there was a decrease consumption of Indian ten since era, the Theory of evolution may undergo some modifica- in the amount of tea that came 1919, when the preference to Em- have to

pire tea was given. On the other tions. from the British Colonies of

Professor David went an, with 6,000,000 lb., there was an increase hand, Java teu had gone up from of 14,000,000 lb. in the tea that 19,000,000 lb. in 1919 to 64,000,000 the aid of the lantern slides, to came from China, the Dutch Eastb. in 1927. They should do their tell some details of his work. |utmost to make the preference to The short address was a surprise Indies and other foreign countries.

Empire tea really effective.

-a pleasant surprise-to most of This was the more extraordinary WAGES AND COST OF LIVING. the members, as it was prepared when they considered that we were

Mr. Churchill said he had given at short notice. giving a preference to tea coming Budget figures showing that, tak- from the British Possessions, the

that ing into consideration changes in proportion imported from quarter in 1926-27 being back to wages in the last four years, the

He had become so used to what it was in 1924-25. The more reduction in the cost of living had years.

a year to the looking for fossils of a whitish expensive tea came from our own purchasing power of the present colour that he had not suspected

the tea possessions. while

from

wage-earners. There had been a the existence of the specimens of foreign countries was decidedly

There had been a de-very substantial reduction, and it old gold and amber yellow which cheaper. crease in the imports of tea for in relation to that substantial are in profusion in the hills of reduction that the tea duty must Mount Lofty and the Flinders 1927-28, but figures of the divi-

be considered. Pressure was put Range. dends paid by various tea com-upon Mr. Snowden when he reduc- panies he found that from 15 pered the duty to make a further re-

"STARING ME IN FACE” cent up to 60 per cent. and in

"If one had gone with the eyes duction, but he did not see his of a child, free from old ideas, the one case 75 per cent. paid. This was a question which way to do so, although no doubt position would have been obvlous really concerned the incidence of he would have liked to do it. He at once," he said. "In Adelaide I thought it WAS a necessary and had seen these fosalla staring me

the face-things Proper step at that time, and he

which I (Mr. Churchill) had endorsed his thought before were only action, and year by year he had minerals."

The fosalls, he said, were extra- which was entailed by his remis ion in 1924. The ten duty actual ly stood at a lower figure than be fore the war. It undoubtedly, was a tax which affected the poorest While he was of the people. It was certainly specimens recently at the Univer- dence of the tax should be care- life in one of them. It turned out right and proper that the inci-sity there was a movement as of fully studied by the House,

the tax.

had been

MR. SAMUEL TO INVESTIGATE. Mr. A. M. Samuel (Financial

Secretary to the Treasury) said that he would have this question examined by the competent autho- rities. The figures of the import of tea for 1911-13 was 260 million pounds weight, of which 87 per In 1927-28 cent. was Empire ten. the figure

millions, of was $23 which 81 per cent. was Empire tea. Chinese importations had fallen from 4 per cent. In 1911-13 to 2.7 per cent. in 1927-28. Other foreign tens had fallen from 0.6 to 0.2 per cent. In the same period. On the other hand, Java and Sumatra tea had increased from 8. cent, in the per cent to 15 per same period. If these amendments were accepted it would mean a loss to Exchequer of between six and seven millions 'sterling, as the tax would include chicory and cocoa.

added 100 million

made the full sacrifice of revenue

He

The discovery, he said, was the result of a certain amount of de- sultory work extending over

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ordinarily well preserved. Among them he had found the carapace, or shell, of an animal. allied to the crayfish.

treating. some

The state of preservation of the! specimens was

the most ramark.

able thing about them.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1928.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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"OTHE AFTERNATIONAL STANDA

to be the fracturing of a limb in should be very glad if it his hand-a perfectly preserved. were within his power to make limb of some animal which had some remission in the tax, either existed perhaps 600,000,000 years total or partial, but he had heavy ago resembling a dried limb of a expenses to meet. The mere fact cockroach or a spider. that there was a reduction in the cost of living, with increased pur- chasing power of the pound steri- to diminish his re- ing, tended

He showed a picture of a piece Hedland. As they were so wide- venue. In addition to that, he had of limestone riddled with the bur-spread in Australla, they would no to face the loss of the tax on kero- rows of sandworms-aandworms doubt be found in other parts of sene, and the possibility of great which had had their being 600 the world. er expense in regard to the rating million years ago, long years be- "I venture to hope," he said, Mr. A. V. Alexander (Co-op.) relief they had in view than he fore scientists thought auch high- "that this find will be useful for (opposite Queen's Theatre). eaid he understood from the Fin these matters in front of him, he Another picture was of an animal extra-Australian rocks.

originally announced. Having allly developed organisms existed. correlating Australian rocks with ancial Secretary that some special was bound to ask the Committee having, a kind of lung sack at the inquiries were on foot. If it was intended to propose some scheme to excuse him from making any end of its body.

full their wishes, al to increase the incidence of taxa though he said with absolute sin- tion on imported foreign tea as

cerity that he should be very glad indeed if it fell to his lot to deal in-with the tea duty in the sense of

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MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.

compared with Empire tea they

Mr. Churchill: There is no

ought to be told now.

tention to make any change.

ance from the Chancellor of the

effort to

re-

"From the point of view of evolution it surely brings forth a wonderful field for future DELICATE STRUCTURES. "When I looked Into this obsearch. This fauna must connote ject," he said, "and saw the won contemporary flora, and it means derfully delicate structures pre-work for hundreds of years to served in it so much more deli- come."

cate than in any newer rocks-lt Professor David, concluding an

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Mr. Alexander: I have an assur- 229 votes to 107, and on a subse-something quite new in geological marked na the outstanding geolo-Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:- The amendment was rejected by seemed to me that I had come on address on what will probably be grame is lying in the E. E Exchequer there is no intention to quent division Clause 1 was added experience, something quite new in gical discovery of recent years, increase the amount of the prefer- ence on Empire tex.

Mr. Churchill: Of the taxation. Mr. Alexander said the Chan- cellor's correction was significant. He contended that having regard to the trade figures and the gen- eral position of the population, there was a strong case for a con- siderable reduction of the tea duty. It was not only the bur- den of the tax, but the cost en- tailed upon the trade of maintain ing the machinery to deal with the bonded warehouses and the Cus toine. He thought the tea trade

I'VE GOT TOY SEE-DINTY "TO-DAY AN' I MUST PHONE HIM FIRST- BUT HOW AM GONNA GIT-MAGGIE OUT, OF THE HOUGE

SOIKIN GIT” OUT TOO?

to the Bill by 229 votes to.113.

the exquisite state of preservation again reproached himself for not in such geogological structures, having made it earlier, A British light aeroplane, whose Perhaps the icy waters of the "I feel really ashamed of my- International Identification marks glacial period may have had some self for not having years and are given at GEBFF, and which Is thing to do with this."

years ago brought the existence of reported to be on a flight to China, Another picture was of a small this, fauna forward," he said. "It landed at Naples on July 9, and left animal which resembled in shape just shows that one is never too again for Malta after re-fuelling.a military "tauk." Its body was old to learn."-"Sydney Sun." The pilot's name is given as Mr. segmented with plates. Sidney Wilockson.

+

Four

and

Boldiers are dead another wounded as the result of the blowing up of two guns during artillery practice at Perkjarvi (Finland).

Salamstone, from Singapore.

E. A. LEGGATT,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, 2nd August, 1928.

The two new Turkish submarines, Birindji Ineunu and Ikindji Ineunu (Ineumu I. and II.), which were Professor David explained that

The Soviet Government has made recently constructed in Holland, these fossils extended from Ade- laide to the end of the Flinders arrangements whereby the bulk of have arrived at Constantinople. Range, thence to the McDonnell the oil exported from the U.S.S.R. After they had been officially hand- Range In Central Australia, to may in future be shipped from ed over to the authorities, the ceremonially Kimberley in W.A., then south- Tuapse, Instead of Novorossisk and Turkish flag

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