GLUCOSE FREIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 16

GLUCOSE FREIGHTS

A denial that Messrs. J. L. Lennard, Zitd., had given evidence before the Tarifl- • .Commission in support of a clainv. for; a; duty of 25 per cent, on foreign' duty solely on its own behalf, that had no mandate or expressed authority from its principals to solicit this, was made before the Commission yesterday by Mr. A. L. Schloss, on h ehalf'."of Messrs. J. L. Lennard, Ltd. To support his denial Mr. Schloss put in copies of letters from, tho principals showing that the action taken, had their, full '-co-operation. : " Mr. Schloss also referred to freights fin glucose from American ports, and aaid. that his firm had never implied ■thkt glucose from American ports, onjjoyed -subsidy, but said that experiences 'in' Auckland had led a member of the firm to ■'■■'in© belief that ee.rtain tinpartictilarised shipments wero enjoying freight reductions. - In regard toother -statements" made Tiy -witnesses' on a former occasion, Mr. Schloss- stated that the Customs tariff regulations of 1931 clearly showed that grain prodncts, dean or- graded, but otherwise' unmanufactured from; any country, but' -wholly manufactured: in Britain,' eanie under the full British privilege iii the' New Zealand tariff;:; Mr. Schloss made further repre-. sentations in regard to hydrogen peroxide," seeking a duty on this product in containers not exceeding one gallon..'