NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 15 November 1923

15 NOVEMBER 1923

Sir Robert Sanders announced the Government’s agricultural policy which included the subsidy of £1 an acre on all arable holdings of not less than one acre, a Customs duty on malting barley and a guaranteed minimum wage for farm workers.

Lord Strachie, the Government’s Agricultural spokesperson, said that the outbreak of Foot and Mouth had cost the Exchequer more than £200,000.

Viscount Grey, speaking in Bath, said that the Liberal Party had achieved unity on a great question and that they would go through the election as they did in 1905.