THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

Evening Star, Issue 11681, 13 February 1902, Page 6

THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

BONUSES AND DUTIES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Coyprignt. MELBOURNE, February 12. it is proposed to pay bonuses equal, to £60,000 on the manufacture of galvanised wire netting and iron and sted pipes, and £3 apiece oil reapers ar4 binders. The wire netting bonus continues for three years, tlie reapers and binders boms for two years, and the pipes bonus fwr five years. The intended duties now on the tariff will have i<o effect until these bonuses ceasa.

The House is considering the iron duties. Mr Kingston said thai, the Government would probably devote a. quarter of a million to the establishment of the iron industry, ami £20,000 to assist zmc production.

The following changes have been made in tlie tariff in Co»nmittee of Ways and Means of the Hoose of Representatives since the House resumed its sittings after tie Christmas adjournment r

Proposed Reduced Duty. Doty. Per Cent. Per Cent Metals and MachineryEngvnes... ... — 25 20 Boilerc „ 25 20 Pumps ■• 25 20 M chines and maeumery, n.e-i 25 20 Screws, n.e.L — So free Axles — £5 15 SDrings - 2r> 15 Mixed mctalware 25 16 Plated metalware 25 20 Metal and Machinery, n.eJL 25 20 Rolled iron or steel beams, joists, girders, columns, trough and bridge iron, or bteel not drilled ur farther manufactured • 20 15 Shafting.cold rotted,turned, or planished ... _ 2(1 IS Bolts and nuts 20 15 Barbed wire _. _. — 20 10