GLOVES AND PENCILS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 253, 22 September 1933, Page 8

GLOVES AND PENCILS.

TARIFF RATES DISCUSSED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 22. The Tariff Commission opened its sittings at Christchurch to-day. A reduction from the present duty of 27$ per cent, to 10 per cent, in the case of cotton and cotton composition household and industrial gloves was asked by Air Ernest L. Wyles. Ho said the Japanese had secured the market and no New Zealand manufacturers were making the lines. The type of glove is that commonly used for household garden purposes and by some factory workers. Deferring to the importation of lead pencils, Mr Douglas A. Adams, manufacturers’ representative, said that wiiiie British manufacturers can hold their own with anyone else in the manufacture of high grades in lead pancils, there were difficulties in their way that prevented them keeping up with foreign competition in the production of cheap pencils, such as are used in schools. Unless the duty is removed or substantially decreased there is no chance of tho British product being sold in New Zealand at one penny, he said.