IMPORTATION OF BULBS
PROPOSED 25 PER- 'CENT. DUTY,
VIGOROUS PROTEST MADE.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 31
A vigorous protest against the proposal of the New Zealand Horticultural Trades Association that a duty of 2o per cent, be levied on bulb importations into New Zealand, except hyacinths and tulips, was made to the Tariff 'Commission to-day by Mr H. A. Fox, director of Tanner Bros., bulb importers, and F. J. Brooker, Welling ton Horticultural Society. . Mr Fox said that if as the Horticultural Trades Association asserted a Dutch firm was offering bulbs retail free of freight and, exchange, such business was not likely to be successful because all would be out of season on arrival, and the public would soon learn to leave them alone, apart from any inferiority claimed.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 5
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