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Approximate Estimate of Returns from Proposed Alterations in Tariff— continued.

Names of Articles. Rate of duty under 1888 Tariff. Duty collected, 1894. Rate fixed by Resolution. Estimated Estimated Annual Annual Increase Decrease of Revenue of Revenue, £ 1,207 1,702 £ £ 300 Perfumed spirits Pictures, paintings, drawings, engravings, and photographs; picture and photograph frames and mounts Pipes, tobacco, cigar and cigarette holders, and cases for same 21s. per gallon 15 per cent. 30s. per gallon 20 per cent. 15 per cent. (Tobacco pipes and cigarette holders only 1,694 161 Not specified Not specified 25 per cent. 1,300 Cigarette-papers and cases Plate, gold or silver Calendars and show-cards, all kinds Cardboard boxes, complete, or cardboard cut and shaped for boxes Directories of New Zealand, or any part thereof Newspaper supplements Stereotypes and matrices Printed matter relating to patent or or proprietary medicines; catalogues and price-lists for firms or persons in the colony Stationery, manufactured, viz.,— Tags and labels 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 25 per cent. 20 per cent. 25 per cent. 25 per cent. 25 per cent. 25 per cent. 200 Free Nil 25 per cent. Free Free Free, except handbills and posters, which were 20 per cent. Nil Nil Not specified 25 per cent. 25 per cent. 25 per cent. Copying letter-books Printed window-tickets Account books, manuscript books; billhead, invoice, and statement forms; printed or ruled paper ; counter-books; cheque- and draft - forms ; blotting - pads; sketch-books; manifold writers; albums, other than for photographs ; diaries; plain or faintlined ruled books; other printed, lithographed, or embossed stationery ; and Christmas, NewYear, birthday, and other similar cards Booklets Stationery and writing paper, not otherwise enumerated Paper, wrapping, viz.: Blue candle, glazed cap, glazed casings, smallhand, lumber-hand, and tissue Paper, wrapping (other kinds, including brown, cartridge, and sugar papers) Cartridges, 10 to 24-bore Cartridge-cases Cartridges not otherwise enumerated Copying-presses".. Weighing-machines Fire-arms Gasometers, and other apparatus for gasworks Iron fencing-wire „ barbed wire Traction-engines Woodenware and turnery and veneers Tags and labels, if unprinted, 15 per cent. 15 per cent. 20 per cent. 25 per cent5,338 25 per cent. 1,300 Free 15 per cent. 4,092 20 per cent. 5s. per cwt. O.K. 1,108 (less that paid on butter paper) Brown 566 6s. per cwt. Brown, 4s. per cwt.; O.K., 5s. per. cwt. 5s. per cwt. 15 per cent. 15 per cent. 15 per cent. 15 per cent. 15 per cent. 15 per cent. Free (if small, 20 per cent.) Is. per cwt. 2s. per cwt. Free Woodware turnery, 15 per cent.; veneers free 6d. per gal. Free 2s. per cwt. 4s. per cwt. 937 47 See above 22 391 1,359 Nil 3s. per 100 Is. 3d. per 100 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 500 4,800 500 5,801 3,960 Nil 1,634 6d. per cwt. Is. per cwt. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 200 300 Kerosene Axle-grease and solid lubricants .. Paints and colours, ground in oil .. Paints and colours, mixed ready for 38,453 5d. per gallon 20 per cent. 3s. per cwt. 6s. per cwt. 6,400 2,367 393 2,000 use Varnish and gold size Varnish, Is. 6d. per gal. ; gold size, free 15 per cent. 1,997 2s. per gallon Tarpaulins, tents, rick- and wagoncovers, aprons and elevators for reaping-and-binding machines .. Cattle, horned Horses Linseed Onions Potatoes (except for seed purposes) Prepared calf-meal Brooms and brushes, andbrushware not otherwise enumerated Corks, cut (including bungs) Flock .. Marble, granite and other stone, dressed or polished, and articles made therefrom 120 20 per cent. Free Free Free 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. Nil Nil Nil 497 21 Not specified 2,052 10s. each £1 each £2 per ton £1 per ton £1 per ton £1 5s. per ton 25 per cent. I 800 15 per cent. Free 20 per cent. 425 20 per cent. 10 per cent. 25 per cent. 1 700 "695 100