§ 63. Mr. HOGGEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why he is including Skeechen in the category of table waters and subjecting it to a tax and the purveyors to a Licence Duty?
§ Mr. McKENNAI must confess that neither I nor my advisers are familiar with the beverage referred to. But inquiry is being made in the light of the information kindly supplied to me by my hon. Friend as to its liability to the tax.
§ Mr. HOGGEIs my right hon. Friend aware that it is a very common drink sold by old women in small shops in industrial districts, and is not in any sense a table water?
§ Mr. McKENNAI am not aware of it; I will make further inquiry.