Suggested Import Duty on Diamonds and Gold from South Africa.

HC Deb 23 February 1905 vol 141 c1077

MR. FIELD

To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the outlay entailed by the Boer War and the failure of the mineowners to bear their promised share of the expenditure incurred, he will consider the advisability of introducing into the Budget a recommendation to impose an import duty on diamonds and gold received from South Africa.

(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) I cannot anticipate in any way the Budget Statement.