DUMPING

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 16, 14 October 1926, Page 9

DUMPING

MENACE TO THE DOMINION MORE PROTECTION WANTED Dominion Special. Christchurch, October 13. The claims of local industries for adequate protection against importations of foreign goods were dealt with at considerable length by Mr. E. H. Marriner, president of the industrial Corporation of New Zealand, in his presidential address at the annual conference which opened in Christchurch to-day. The Government had given extra protection to motor body-builders and also preference to British cars, but except for some alterations in 1921 the Customs tariff was practically the same as it was after being amended in 1907. New Zealand, With its' low tariff barrier, had probablv received a greater proportion of “dumped” goods per head of population than any other country. If New Zealand was to grow, if it was to be able to raise itself to a fair measure of economic independence, then its industries must be established, be they primary or manufacturing. This could be accomplished onlv through a recognition of the fact that -every country had a right to her own industries. The farmer had a right, to be protected against the importation of the class of goods which he produced.