TARIFF ASSOCIATION

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10316, 27 January 1927, Page 3

TARIFF ASSOCIATION

REGISTERED IN WELLINGTON DOMINION-WIDE CAMPAIGN FORr FUNDS WELLINGTON, Jam 26. The Tariff Association was registered to-day under the Incorporated Societies Act. It is avowedly _ antiprotectionist. The personnel is interesting: L. Ashcroft Fduaids, company manager, B. , Hark ness. company manager, Hugh Charles Jenkins, publisher, Robert Kennedy solicitor, Arthur A. George, draper, william Perry, fanner, w. •D. Hunt, company manager, Sidney Kirkcaldio. company manager, bir 'Alexander Robert, merchant, -Henry S. Hart, merchant, W. G. _ Duthie, ironmonger, A. Debath Brandon barrister, T. G. Brasch, secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, Leonard H. Tripp, barrister and solicitor lan F. Johnston, fanner, Samuel Turner, dairy produce agent, George Winder, solicitor. A paragraph in the press notice states that the British Manufactur(ers Association will be pleased to hjear that tlie objects of the _ Tariff Association include the retention _or the principle, of preference for British goods. The Association will be a propagandist. in a very definite way. It will offer evidence to. any tariff board or committee and will help in the election of any suitably pledged candidates for Parliament. A New Zealand-wide campaign for funds is being planned. The Association ‘considers, increased protection can only result in the community as a whole being unfairly taxed for the benefit of certain small sections.— P.A.