CUSTOMS TARIFF
INQUIRY TO TAKE PLACE. NO CHANGE IN IMMEDIATE Wellington, March 11. A statement that there was no justification for a feeling of uncertainty as to possible modifications in Customs tariff was made by the Minister of Finance (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) when commenting on an allegation which had been made in certain quarters that importers and business men were holding orders in suspense owing to possible changes in tariff. “So far as Customs tariff is concerned, it is true that an inquiry is about to be put in hand. We are already in touch with the United Kingdom in this connection, and the personnel and order of reference of the commission will be announced at an early date; but in the meantime we cannot do more than hold an inquiry and formulate recouimendations. “No change in Customs tariffs except, of course where there are existing powers vested in the Government, can be made except by Parliament, and no session is in prospect for several months. The Government will lose r.o time in bringing before the House the recommendations that resalt from the inquiry, but careful investigation is first required, and, as I have, said, it is obviously impossible to make any change in the immediate future.’’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 77, 13 March 1933, Page 9
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