TARIFF INQUIRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 11

TARIFF INQUIRY.

CHRISTCHURCH EVIDENCE.

MATERIALS FOR PRINTING.

(By Telegraph.—Press Asseci^tloa.)

CHRISTCHURCH, this day.

Evidence regarding printers' materials was given before the Tariff Commission at Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin, and further evidence was given at Cbrie'i;-' church yesterday.

William Soper, of Wicks, Limited, asked that there be no increase in the duty on raw materials and no reductions in the duty on finished printed promote imported.

B. E. H. Whitcqmbe, managing director of Whitcombe and Tombs; Limited, asked that no alterations be made in the tariff either by increase in duties 011 raw materials or reduced duties on imported printing-. His firm had built up a large business in show cards and containers used, by New Zealand manufacturers. The ayticles were mounted on boards mostly imported from (Scandinavia, and if the daty oil this board was increased this work woilkl probably be lost to his firm and tq New Zealand,

Thomas Henry I'hipps asked that British bottles be admitted free, and that a duty of 50 per cent be placed on foreign bottles, with the present duty of 2p per cent on Australian bottles, The. present duty was 25 per cent on all sources. He said the New Zealand glass works did not manufacture a full range of bottles.

Robert Henry Purdom, "representing Frank M. Wiqstone, Limited, opposed an application previously made in Auckland for a duty on wax board containers, used mainly for the distribution of honey and cream.

Francis Leigh Hutchinson, secretary, and Joiin William Green, factory manager for M. O'Brien and Company, boot manufacturers, supported requests previously made for increased protection on women's and children's shoes. Thomas G. Shanks, for Suckling Brothers, made a similar request. The general ground advanced was that labour costs in England were much below those in New Zealand.