TARIFF COMMISSION
Various Articles Mentioned
By Telegraph.—Press Association
Christchurch, October 12.
Before the Tariff Commission today, Mr. W. B. Bray, honey producer, asked that a duty of 2d per pound be imposed on all imported glucose, at present admitted free. Mr. William Aald F. Brodie, New Zealand representative for Hill, Mor man and Beard Ltd., organ builders, London, asked for a duty of 20 per cent, on foreign great organs and parts, at present admitted free. He gaid church organs were, in fact, all British. but cinema organs had been imported from foreign countries. and. as Britain bad taken up the manufacture of these organs, she was anxious to secure trade. Mr. Richard Douglas David, reprtsenting John Burns and Co., protested against the application for an increase in the tariff on compression-ignition bn trines.
Other witnesses asked for the removal of the duty on vegetable extracts. beekeepers’ comb, conffi foundation. and iron tanks.
Mr. Albert Edward Byrne, secretary to the Hardware Merchants’ Association. opposed an application for a duty of £.l n ton on Canadian barbed wire.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 9
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177TARIFF COMMISSION Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 9
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