TO CREATE MOKE WOKE
HIGHER TARIFF SOUGHT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, September 7. Before the Tariff Commission thil afternoon, Charles Henry Brown, on behalf of G. Methven and Co., gave evidence regarding the manufacture of valves, : brass . fittings, and. similar articles, and asked for an increase of the British preferential tariff from 25 per cent, to 27J perV cent. The company based its claim for continued protection on the grounds that the industry was efficient and economically operated and able to compete with' imports from overseas if granted sufficient protection to compensate for the local higher costs of material and labour. The labour costs at present operating in New Zealand showed an increased percentage over the United Kingdom rates of_ 45 per cent. This inincreased labour "cost was enhanced by the restrictions in regard to youth labour, which, in the case of apprentices under the Apprenticeship Act, allowed in the brassfounding tradte one apprentice to two tradesmen. There was no restriction in the United Kingdom. If the company had access to additional work the number of employees could be doubled. ■-■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 8 September 1933, Page 5
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180TO CREATE MOKE WOKE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 8 September 1933, Page 5
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