CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18571, 25 November 1920, Page 8

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

SHIPPING LAW AND TAXATION. [Per Press. Association.] WELLINGTON, November 24. The Associated Chambers resolved to draw tha Government’s attention to the United States Merchant Marine ■ Act, 1920, the eocailed Jones Law, and to urge the adoption of measures to provent importers suffering disabilities when shipments were made in British vessels. A Dunedin remit, regretting the dropping of a provision in tho land and

income tax amendment, which put municipal trading concerns on the same footing as private businesses, also a Canterbury remit, askine for a Royal Commission to inquire into the principles and incidence on all taxation in the Dominion, and to make recommendations as to all taxes to be levied during tho fiscal yeaTß 1920-21, were adopted.