Effect of Tariff Remissions.
In his speech in moving ibo second reading of the Customs I'uties Amendment Bill in the House of Representatives last night, the Premier said he estimated that the proposed tariff redactions and remissions would entail a loss of £159,700 in revenue as compared with last year's receipts Mr Seddon gave the fjl lowing details a" to how he expected the loss to be made np : — Kerosene, £42,000; tea, £40,000; currants and raisins, £21,000 ; rice, £16,000 ; satt, £5000; coffee and cocoa, £6000 ; candles, £7500 ; patent mcd cine 3, £9000 ; drugs and druggists' sundries, £3000 ; mining machinery, £1000; agricultural machinery, £1200; dairying machinery, £200; dredging machinery, L 50 0; engines and boilers and engines, L 1300; matches, L3OOO ; and paraffin wax, L3OOO.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 53, 31 August 1900, Page 2
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