Honey duty retained
The present rates of duty: sn honey, which afford adequate protection for the New’ Zealand national honey industry. will be retained, the Tariff and Development Board has decided. The board considers that the industry is sufficiently, well established to work suc-'i ressfully under suitable protective duties, and recom-; tnends that natural honey be exempted from import licensing. Exemption from licensing will allow any special high-, priced honeys, not competing with the local product, to be imported, so widening the choice to the consumer, says, the board. The average production of I honey in New Zealand over the last 10 years is estimated to be about 5300 tons a year,! of which the domestic market requirement is about 4500 to 5000 tons a year. The average quantity of honey exported over the last five years has been about 650 tons a year. Tennis. — The Australian second-seed, Frank Sedgman.l has beaten the unranked Tom! Brown (California), 6-4, 6-3, to win the Almaden grand masters I tennis final. —Sarasota, Florida. I
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33790, 12 March 1975, Page 11
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171Honey duty retained Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33790, 12 March 1975, Page 11
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