TARIFF DEFENDED

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18147, 9 August 1924, Page 10

TARIFF DEFENDED

The 1 ** People | o: an Crating i^>■%■ sentatives t(Hby. "It has t***Ti •re bc,» s opioid uZV*K« Government w ero SMKI swing caffictent Wrts. The iSpf £»lta| tnes, but w»WrS?*»*B should be refu«F C r*iS| Jlr Girling arfg ' H of taxation »lfec^|,J*Jfißl torn, m 1903, wrfa, a j&taJ meat. The I no less than 74 par *£ VUI under the «nt. In Australia I of imnorto coming fet»&Ap| free of dutv was VXJSSB inp primage, which round at 1 per «nt. fi'SNA dO and 34 per cent. would convince in*, that tb» WfiflSkl fair and equitable. Dissecting th ß find the chief said that the figure* (» Spirit* £l,o79,7*4*JElfH £1,271,135, apparel £1.798,237, motor «Sfe#SK»l other goods £1 i&m iS&iH £417,193, total £r«,s'«| that apparel was 25 m* t&ia JShI duty, textiles 18 cellaneous goods cles) 20 per cent. FaolSiSSrw totalled £200,000, *3&f3HI stuffs were on the freP&EtsfH showed that the; had breakfast table, and lmng was tberefera «*f■Wm-|W those duties. /^HB Cotton Piece <fei& ■■ ti, 9 Labour Taembera turi'ttfaii&LMi that the cost of toting the duty on oottoa «A» S3?"M should bo exnlaimA fc»»gr;|W there was no duty on goods, bnt on fancy, that could not be ™«" B *tmSfff*3BE process. There was » imports of 10 per free. Labour members *iv££!Bt a tariff on tools and s*<«l§fcH| but thero was nasi <jq jj&fffcf|g factures and only ■U* i&iigfcXi foreign. »■ ' / *"-S5 The duty on ■ plain cotton piece gftgfc *tfjsf|g£ cent., but it 'was-|»W«tSw,«4«H than revenue pnHfaeityjijil&l ests of local tndmirki T?Silri&9H of the dutv for tfc*. was i cotton was mfrril 'iiilfflllJJjWaM i That -irnn rifiiimiiTj fii)ittff|fflHW alty to the , try, which cooM : goods required W t»irifflw|fflfeHi«B be prepared, ttSPffiMl duty of 4d per lb was imposed cotton being puauA thought it wbold rag JWiH dutv eo that N-nr might compete in thing that wan "T^t^rffrTiß apparel was i I'liiirtlY jjJfjTjilß cent, on British' foreign goods, b«ei4» could manufactory thing that was needed JfJ-fiKWIW Mr Girling sion: That the tima i£ dHHSgial which- wcro free creased from tut& 9' sizes larger. Dot 'fe* with* critics age duty, which last year, ehould-'fe* SumrninK ur> fe« <£* w Customs revenue its effect on the co*f ling said that with tl»!''mßlsßwS| tions proposed ■• by rinccrl that the He* .ftgfjy was designed th on utilities and fe«MffleMiJffiW{*BS and to secitre'iU «ffCW»,%^S l aß that miglit coming within it* «atf*^i'^i?SH