TARIFF COMMISSION
CAMERAS AND DENTAL CHAIRS. [ter press association.] WELLINGTON, June 9. At this afternoon’s sitting of the Tariff Commission, a plea, for the revision of duty on cameras was made by Alexander Beauchamp, managing director for Kodak (N.Z.) Ltd. Mr, Beauchamp contended that the present duty was excessive. He said that if a reduction was made, sales would increase. He had no objection to duty on sundry photographic lines remaining as before. Professor Murphy: Do you say, that if cameras are admitted free the loss in customs will be made up by increased sales of sundries. Witness said he would go as far as that. James Smith McArthur, managing director of the Dental Medical Supply Coy., asked for a reclassification of dental chairs. They were at present under the heading of general furniture. He contended that those chairs of British manufacture should be free. A duty of 20 per cent, plus surtax, should be imposed on the foreign article. The Commission adjourned till tomorrow morning.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 June 1933, Page 7
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