WHEAT DUTY
NEARLY 100 PEE CENT
A statement showing the excessive nature of the wheat duty has just been submitted to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce: — £ .•?. (l. 626 bushels ot a selected nualily wheat at 3s Til f.o.h. Sydney .. II.1 " t Duly at Ca pel per hushcl less currcnl.domestic u»luo Syunry 3s W ~ "^ '"' ' f ,J | Kre|IBl'it'. USv<liic.v-AuVldand ':::.';... "■> 210 Whiirfaso ' H *■ I Landed rest (exclusive of buylns . ! oommlssinn or carlaKo) £-1" - " i Duty amounts to say OjVa per cent, of Ihe f.o.b. cost. Had a lower grade, say 3s per bushel, sufficed, the duty would have been 6s fld less 3s, nr 3s Od per bushel. This works out at 125 per cent. THE TIMBER TRADE 'flic State l'Vest Service report en timber imports and exports f«T February, as prepared from Customs returns, is an fol- : lows:— ' ! Value. , Imporls. £ Australia V-'.oll i Canada S.mi Unitrd Slates X.tfH ■Sweden 4,0-':! "liiifsia •.'."•.'" Kinlaiul !»r.l Japan 2,34."> United Kingdom 71 Included in these imports are butter boxes from Sweden and Finland; cheese crates from Canada, and United States; fruit cases from United States, and in addition timber from the Philippine Islands valued at £43t5. Exports of New Zealand timbers for the month are as follows: — Value. Timber. £ Kauri 1.......... 89f Eimn 40 White pine 1........ 13fi Beechtvood .102 ■ Other kinds 1,252
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 9
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217WHEAT DUTY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 9
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