PERFUMES AT INQUIRY

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 August 1933, Page 9

PERFUMES AT INQUIRY

MAINTENANCE OF DUTY

REQUESTS BEFORE COMMISSION

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 2

Two large bottles of lavender water decorated the table at the Tariff Commission inquiry to-day, when representatives of Shariand and Co., Ltd., gave evidence. They asked for the maintenance of the present duty of 20 per cent., ad valorem, on medicinal preparations and 35 per cent, duty on toilet goods. They said! that if the duty on the toilet goods were maintained Ahe output could he increased and a wider range produced. They sought an increase in the duty on perfume spirits, the admission, duty free, of liquid extracts for manufacturing tinctures and the abolition of the 3 per cent, primage on barks, moots, etc., used for tinctures. One witness -said that unless retires,s were obtained it would he necessary to uise a different ha,sis in one of the 1 amender preparations. Asked by Mr G. A. Pasco© what difference in quality would he involved, the witness said. “The host way is test it yourself. ’ ’ Mr Pascoe : I’m afraid I am not an expert.

The free admission of castings for piston rings was asked for by a representative of B. Johnson and! Sons, Ltd., who said that i,f local' manufacturers were to compote with imported rings the use of castings was essential. The duty on imported rings should bo increased, rather than reduced. A, representative of Tyler, Ltd., Auckland, asked for the abolition or reduction of the duty on glassware, which he said was not manufactured locally except ,bottles and jam jars. If the duty were required for revenue purposes he suggested a reduction of from 20 to 10 per cent,.