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Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: I am coming to that. That concludes my second class. I come now to the third class of dutiable articles, beer, wine and spirits. There is no importation of Colonial beer. The arrangement of a preference would be complicated and difficult, and at any rate for the time we may safely neglect it. I propose to do the same for the same reason with table waters, matches, and...
Orders of the Day — Beer (Larger and Better Supply).
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: I will indicate very shortly the effect of the proposal on the revenue of the current year. I put my estimate of the revenue from beer on the existing basis of taxation at £37,800,000, and by the existing basis I mean the existing barrelage and the existing rate of duty before any alterations are made. Any increase of output, of course, increases the yield of the tax quite...
Mr John Gretton: Those who are interested, I presume, will have an opportunity of discussing the Beer and Spirit Duties during the Debate to-morrow. No one in the Committee except the Government and the Chairman has seen these Resolutions, unless by courtesy of the officials at the Table a copy has been shown. I would suggest that a copy of these Resolutions should be placed in the Vote Office on these...
Orders of the Day — Beer (Customs).
Orders of the Day — Beer (Excise).
Resolved, 8. That in lieu of the existing duties charged upon licences to be taken out annually by brewers of beer (other than brewers for sale) occupying houses of an annual value not exceeding fifteen pounds there shall, on and after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and nineteen, be charged the following duties (that is to say):—
Mr Thomas Davies: ...winter season. I said, "How do you manage to get a living out of that?" She replied, "My husband gets his 14s. a week. He is a very steady, careful, sober man, and he only keeps back 2s. a week for beer and tobacco." One-seventh of one's income for beer and tobacco is rather large, but 3½d. a day is not very much for tobacco and beer for a working man. I said, "That brings it back to...
Beer.
Mr Horatio Bottomley: ...of the Budget. There is, however, one other point. I was well aware that whatever else we should find in the Budget we should assuredly see those poor old hard-worked subjects—whisky and beer—trotted out for a further burden to be put on their already bent backs. I do not know how the right hon. Gentleman justifies knocking 50 per cent. off the Excess Profits Duty on the ground that it...
Mr Thomas Grundy: ...about by legislation was that if a seller gave more than the measure, he was summoned. I sat on a bench of magistrates, and the proprietor of an off-licence who had given above the legal pint of beer was brought before us Probably that did not occur often, but on this occasion it had occurred, and I remember that this man was brought into Court, and summoned for giving the long pull. The...
Whisky and Beer Supplies.
Mr Donald Maclean: ...respect that comes from the fact that I have an English law training, suggest it is more necessary in Scotland than anywhere. One of the reasons why Scottish lawyers have done so well at the English Bar is that once they get over the difficulties of Scottish law everything else must be easy to them. I am quite sure it would be really useful. There are advocates in Parliament House who...
Mr John Clynes: ...are supplied. I wish for fairness, not merely for the labourer but for the farmer as well. My right hon. Friend this afternoon, greatly to my disappointment, did not say anything on the question of beer or spirits. Unhappily the Food Ministry was made the medium for the performance of a good many of the odd jobs that were going during the period of the War. All I suggest now is that there...
Mr Austen Chamberlain: ...should be some different proportion between direct and indirect taxation, but that there should be no indirect taxation at all. That would mean, for instance, that there would be no taxation on beer or spirits. Then we come to the proposal of the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Adamson) that a large portion of the population should pay no direct taxation. Let me just say what is the proportion...
Orders of the Day — Beer (Customs).
Orders of the Day — Beer (Excise).
8. "That in lieu of the existing duties charged upon licences to be taken out annually by brewers of beer (other than brewers for sale) occupying houses of an annual value not exceeding fifteen pounds there shall, on and after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and nineteen, be charged the following duties (that is to say):—
Colonel Rowland Burdon: ...and also of the undercurrent of resentment and consequent unrest prevalent in all parts of England, Wales, and Scotland caused by the feeling among all classes that the restrictions on the sale of beer and spirits are being retained for obscure political purposes; and whether he will take steps to revert at once to pre-war conditions?
Captain William Benn: ...compulsory as the legal language, is it unnatural that they should feel alarm? What would happen in this country if it were to be announced that nobody would be allowed to practice at the English Bar without he had a Scottishaccent? I do not say it is not a good thing to change the law, but I say this: that the unrest among this large and influential class has been caused by the panic that...
