PRIMAGE DUTY.
INCREASE NOT CONSIDERED NECESSARY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON Aug. 14. The local Chamber of Commerce has discussed the primage duty increase. The chairman said that this woulld be a big importing year and there was not the necessity for an increase. Other speakers said that 2) per cent, would bo added if the increase were imposed to make- up for losses of’ the past by -passing the whole of the primage duty on to the public. The chamber decided to- send a resolution on these lines to Sir Joseph "Ward.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 August 1929, Page 9
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