DOUBLED PRIMAGE DUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 258, 31 October 1929, Page 28

DOUBLED PRIMAGE DUTY.

RELIEF AFTER NEXT MARCH. LIST OF ITEMS EXCLUDED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The articles to which the increased primage duty will not apply after Marcl: 31 next are:— Grain and pulse, nnground and xmmanufactured; grain and pulse, ground oi manufactured; onions, potatoes, vegetables, viz., 1 preserved peas in tins or similai containers; (2) fresh, dried or preserved, o.e.i. Aerated waters and beverages, n.e.i.: mineral waters, being beverages, aerated or otherwise; chicory, cocoa-beans, raw; cocoa and chocolate; coffee, raw; coffee, roasted; coffee essence of and essence of coffee mixed with milk or with any food substance. Fruit, juices, unsweetened; citrus fruit pulps (including fruit juices containing such percentage of citrus fruit pulp as may be determined by the Minister), sweetened or unsweetened in bulk or otherwise. Tea in Bulk.—Viz., in packages of 51b or over net weight of tea; tea, n.e.i. Bacon and hams, biscuits, blue, candles, cocoa or cacao butter, coconut butter and other vegetable-butters or fats. Confectionery, including medicated confectionery, liquorice, n.e.i., and sugared or crystalised fruits; lard, stearme and refined animal fats, n.e.i.; stearine on declaration that it will be used only in the manufacture of candles, matches, soaps leather or other articles approved by the Minister. Fish.—Viz., (1) Anchovies, salted in casks or other containers capable of holding 281b net or over; (2) fish, fresh, smoked, dried, pickled, salted, preserved by cold process or preserved by sulphur-

ous acid, n.e.i.; (3) fish, potted and preserved—viz., salmon, including any liquor, oil, or sauce; (4) fish, potted and preserved, n.e.i., any liquor, oil or sauce. . Fruits, Dried.—Viz., (1) currants, dates, figs, prunes, raisins; (2) n.e.i., fruits, fresh, viz., (1) apples and pears; (2) apricots, cherries, grapes, medlars, nectarines, passion fruit, peaches, plums, quinces, tomatoes; (3) lemons; (4) blackberries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, and strawberries; (5) bananas, grapefruit, mandarins and oranges; (6) n.e.i., fruit pulp, fruit preserved in juice or syrup, glucose, grape sugar and caramel.. . Honey, infants' and invalids' foods, as may be approved by the Minister; gluten flour, jams, jellies, marmalade, and preserves; macaroni, vermicelli, spaghetti, egg noodles and similar alimentary pastes. Malt extract;, meats, . potted .or . preserved; milk or cream, preserved, evaporated, or dried, and including any of the foregoing in combination with casein, sugar of milk or other milk product. Mustard, nuts, and preparations thereof; capers, caraway seeds, caviare, cayennepepper, curry powder, curry paste, fish paste, olives, ground turmeric; candied peel and drained peel; matches and vestas; pickles, sauces, chutney, soy and catsup; egg pulp and white or yolk of eggs. Provisions, n.e.i.; rice, dressed or undressed, rice meal refuse and rice meal; soap, all kinds; salt; spices, unground, including chillies, pepper, and pimento, unground; spices, ground, n.e.i., including pepper, pimento and olive stones, ground. Confectioners' moulding-starch, potato flour, rice flour, arrowroot, sago, tapioca, maizena, cornflour; starch; sugar of number 22 colour or over (Dutch standard), invert sugar and invert syrup; sugar, n.e.i., treacle, molasses, golden 'syrup, maple sugar and maple syrup, sugar of milk. Vinegar, baking powder, cream of tartar, cream of tartar substitutes, essences, culinary or flavouring; rennet; blacklead, grate and stove polishes, pastes and liquids; gelatine and isinglass; agar agar; manures.