N.Z. MANUFACTURES

Grey River Argus, 31 July 1935, Page 5

N.Z. MANUFACTURES

TARIFF CHANGE Adverse to Motor Assemblers (Per b*rr?M Association). WELLINGTON. Ju'y 2V-. Alarm at certain aspects of t:ir ff revision in respect of motor vehicles assembled in the Dominion,, was expressed by Mr A. E. Mande.i. seiie tary of the New Zealand Manufacturers ’ Federation to-day. The changed regulations to permit importation of spring scats, h e . said, would alone throw out of work at least 60 men, and seriously affected also would be manufacturers of batteries, bumpers, and upholstery, together with a tannery, which had imported a supply of leather for in terior furnishing. Further, the change in the regulations, it was understood would permit the importation of stee' cabs. etc., for motor trucks. Hitherto body building for trucks tmd been a most steady part of th,- work of New Zealand coach builders al' ore. the Dominion, and at least a dozen coach building firms would now find difficulty in carrying on. As nil trucks had hitherto had cabs and bodies made of Now Zealand wood, the beech timber industry would also be affected.

JAP TARIFF CHANGES. NO HELP TO N.Z. WELLINGTON. July 30. “New Zealand will not receive any benefit whatever from the apparent y handsome 'trade concessions granted bv Japan,’’ said Mr Mander Secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers ’ Federation. “The. schedule of goods on winch the concession is gran'c'l. includes wheat, flour, starch, pulp for paper packing paper, match paper, felt fo l paper, white, yellow and red cedar, hem'oek spruce, pinus larix ami fir. ’ Mr Mrinder said that not ono item in the schedule related to exports t 1 Japan by New Zealand. The latest available official figures showed that New Zealand exported to Japan, butter casein, hides, wool, tallow and scrap metal.