TARIFF PROBLEM

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10489, 14 October 1926, Page 5

TARIFF PROBLEM

NO DUTY r ON FOREIGN CHURNS

MINISTER DENIES G CRM AN CONSIGNMENTS

CHRISTCHURCH, Cm. 12 Speaking at the opening of the Industrial Corporation Conference to-day, the Hon Downie Stewart said that, in spite of what the president of the corporation had said about German churns coming into the country free of duty he (the speaker) believed that no churns bad come in though an attempt had been made to introduce them. The idea of putting no duty on imported churns ■was to help the dairying industry, and, before any alteration in the list was made the industry would have to lie consulted to make sure that - it would not be placed at a disadvantage. The subject could well come up when the tariff v-as revised next year and the close co-opera-tion of dairymen was essential. The tariff list should lie revised periodically and not tampered 'with year in and" year out to tno general upset of the importing branches. The Customs officers had an extraordinarily good idea of the industries of the Dominion and he (the speaker) favored for next year a Tariff Board with the personnel the, same as m 1921 and with the addition of a representative of the Department of Industries and Commerce. With the tariff list, his policy had been to nibble when an opportunity oeciu--red. He had observed what .lie believed to lie the feeling of the country in having put recently a duty on American motor cars to give motor body builders in New Zealand a chance. —P.A.