VARIOUS REQUESTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1933, Page 14

VARIOUS REQUESTS

THE TARIFF SCHEDULES

(By, Telegraph.—Pres9 Association) ' / CHRISTCHTJRCH, 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. "W. A. E. Brodie, New Zealand representative for Hill, Morman, 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 said that church organs were, in fact, all British, but cinema organs had been imported from foreign countries, and, as Britain had take. up. the manufacture of' these organs, she was anxious to secure trade. Mr. Richard Douglas David, representing John Burns and Co., protested against tho application for an increase in the tar'ff on compression-ignition engines. Other witnesses asked for the removal of the duty on vegetable extracts, beekeepers' comb, comb foundation, and iron tanks. Mr. Albert Edward Byrne, secretary to the Hardware Merchants' Association, opposed an application for a duty of £5 a ton on Canadian barbed wire. .