THE AMENDED TARIFF.

Feilding Star, Issue 352, 24 August 1907, Page 4

THE AMENDED TARIFF.

IF£R PRESS ASSOCIATION-] Wellington, August 23. Under the amended tariff resolutions the following alterations are made: — Imported confectionery has reverted to the rates charged prior to the j original tariff, brought down last i month. Flaked maize has been altered from 2s to Is a bushel. Surgeon's, physician's, dentist's and optician's instruments, on which it was proposed to put a 20 per cent, duty have been placed on the free list. Raw cotton is also placed on the free list, and the new duty on cotton goods does not come into force until 31st December. The amended duties on boots, shoes, clogs and patterns n.o.e. are men's above size No. 5 Is 6d a pair and 15 per cent, ad valorem, No. 1 Is a pair and 15 per cent., boys' No. 7 to 1 6d a pair and similar ad valorem, women's above si2© No. 1 Is and 15s per cent., girls' No. 7 to 1 15 per cent. Slippers if felt with felt soles and shoes and goloshes known as' Plimsolls with moulded India rubber soles .22$ per cent. Printing inks remain free and are placed on the preferential tariff. The duty on cartridge cases is altered from Is 6d to Is a hundred. Electric generators and motors, electric lamps, including globes for arc lamps and electric transformers) are ■, subject to a duty of 10 per cent., ! other electrical machinery 10 per j cent. ' j Amendment h&s been made in duties on iron pipes and wrought iron pipes over 6in in diameter. Iron pipes* up to 9in are free, over 9in 20 per cent., but if required for municipal j purposes will be admitted free. j On vestas, tin vestas, and sr man's ovals the duty will Vr od on number of matches ch box. Bags of textile or felt, n printed, will bo charged 25 per cent. Articles placed on free list include j rice meal, refuse of rice meal, fruit | juices, tea in bulk and packages not j less than 51b (under 51b the duty to be 2d per lb), sodium peroxide, etc. Dentists and surgeons' materials • has been widened by the addition of j the ' words, "Such other, appliances i and materials peculiar to surgical or ! dental use as may be from time to j time enumerated by the Minister." | Moulded shoe and slipper soles are j made. free to encourage the manufacturo in the colony of tops. j Glass bottles and earthen jars up ! to 3in at mouth are free, above that size 20 per cent. Films for kinematoscopes, cinematographs, free; Sunday School tickets and reward cards, i scriptural or religious, not exceed- I ing five pence a dozen invoice value ! and not exceeding 6in by 4in in size, ! fiee^ brass tubing and stamp work in • the rough suitable for gas-fitters, etc., i free. Various articles connected with electrical appliances are free. Motor i cars have been struck out of the free i list, but chasses for motor caws, in- j eluding wheels,- are free, the body will j pay 2 Oper cent., the engine and packing is free. The following have been struck out of the preferential tariff: Bacon, hams, glucose, honey, walnuts, pearl barley, grain, pulse/ every kind of horses, onions, potatoes, prepared calf meal, also motor cars and wheels for them, cream separators and parchment paper for butter, bottles and ; jars, axles, axle arms and boxes. j