TARIFF COMMISSION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 6 October 1933, Page 5

TARIFF COMMISSION

CHRISTCHURCH EVIDENCE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 5. The retention of present duties on spray pumps and clothes wringers was asked by Mr Sidney George Holland, manager of the Christchurch Mechanical Works, while giving evidence before the Tariff Commission to-day. The present duties were, British 20 per cent., and foreign 45 per cent. On behalf of Scott Bros., Ltd., it was requested that the present duties on domestic electric ranges, 20 per cent. British, and 45 per cent, foreign, should be maintained. Mr INeil Alexander John Mcßae asked for increased duties on washing blue and washing and cleansing powders, which his firm manufactured. Mr Cecil William Rudkin, managing director of Lane, Walker, Rudkin,

Ltd., asked for a duty on artificial silk knitted piecegoods of British 10 per cent.. Dominions 25 per cent., and foreign 35 per cent. ; and for a duty on knitted cotton piecegoods of British 20 per cent., Dominions 30 per cent:, and foreign 40 per cent. The l ; witness said he realised it would be i necessary to get the consent of Britain for an increased duty on British co't- . ton and silk interlock fabric. . j Professor Murphy : Do you think it would be expedient for New Zealand I to ask for that at present? I Witness : I do. , I Professor Murphy: What effect do i 1 you think it would have on our but- ■ ter and wool and other primary produce ? Would it not play into their hands? ~ , s ! Witness : I don’t think so. We ; 1 get our loottom, raw material, and ■ • machinery from England. I Professor Murphy: I'think we have ■ more to lose than to gain by. any modification of the treaty at present.