DUTY ON GLASS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 173, 24 July 1934, Page 3

DUTY ON GLASS.

PROPOSED REDUCTION OPPOSED. APPEAL TO MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.* WELLINGTON, this day. The appeal by the Australian Glass Manufacturers' Company, Ltd., Auckland, from the finding of the Tariff Commission, was made this morning to the Minister of Customs, Mr. Coates, on tho grounds that the commission had failed to appreciate two fundamental facts relating to the industry. It was stated that if the duty was lowered, as proposed, United Kingdom glass manufacturers would be able to "pick tho eyes out of the market." They would certainly not endeavour to compete in the whole of the Dominion market, and they would be content to take tho business of the largest users, thus saving themselves the heavy cost of selling and distributing throughout tho Dominion and supplying smaller . users. They would leave all the more costly and less profitable portion of the ! business to the appellants. In the glass industry it was a large order which made it possible to meet small orders economically. The second point emphasised was that in glass works perhaps more markedly than in any other industry a reduction in output meant an immediate increase : in the costs of production. The Minister promised to consider the < representations. .