AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9101, 25 May 1906, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

TABIFF COMMISSION.

Ipbess association.] (Received May 25, 9.58 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 25. The Tariff Commission in a progress Teport on distillation states that there has been an universal increase in the production of spirits from molasses in New South •Wales and Queensland. Australian distillers are at a great disadvantage in competing against imported spirits owing to the higher cost of labor and materials in production and local prejudice against Australian productions. It recommended that in order to equalise conditions there should be a substantial difference in the duty on imported and local spirits.