REVISION OF TARIFF

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1926, Page 15

REVISION OF TARIFF

CASE FOR LOCAL INDUSTRIES

SUGGESTED COUESE OF ACTION.

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, 3rd August.

The annual report of the Duuedin Manufacturers' Association states that for some tinjg past there had been indications that many industries were beginning to chafe under the existing Customs tariff. This was probably traceable largely to the drastic changes that had been taking place in industrial conditions in different parts, of the world during the years of reconstruction since the war, and proper investigation might show that a revision of the tariff to meet these changed con : ditions was desirable.

It tvas suggested that each industry, should take steps to work up its owu case in the first instance and place .the results in the hands of the association, so that the full benefits of concerted action might be* obtained. The association's experience in handling the case for local industries at the last tariff revision showed that the lack of initiative ' and seeming indifference on the part of many individual manufacturers was a factor to be contended with, while difficulties were also created in some instances by lack of uniformity amongst those engaged in the same industry.

. The part taken by the Dunedin Manufacturers' Association in ensuring the success of the Exhibition secondary industries pavilion was referred to in detail in the report, and some interesting statistics were quoted:—Total number of individual manufacturing exhibitors,----207; amount paid for space fees, £20,000; estimated expenditure on stands, £31,000; total length of frontages occupied by the exhibits in industrial pavilion, X£ miles.