HIGHER TARIFF
"Impetus to Secondary Industries " LOWER COSTS EXPECTED BY MINISTER FOR LABOUR "Trade, I expected, would improve, and the greater protection now given to New Zealand manufacturers should be a further impetus to the secondary industries," said the Minister for Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong), when discussing in an interview yesterday the effect of the higher tariffs on the absorption of workers. The higher tariffs embraced by the trade agreements would not cause any rise in the costs to consumers in the Dominion, the Minister predicted. With the increased protection, the secondary industries would be permitted to work for a great turnover, and the goods should be supplied at a cheaper cost to the people. "That was the effect of protection in Australia," said Mr Armstrong. "Nobody can suggest that the price of boots and many other commodities for which Australia provided higher tariff protection has gone up, and I know that many of the commodities are now selling at a lower cost there."
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22345, 8 March 1938, Page 12
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