TARIFF COMMISSION
MANUFACTURERS’ EVIDENCE. ( DECISION TO RESUME. (Special to ‘‘Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day. The Now Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation is to resume the submission of evidence before the Tariff Commission. In a statement issued yesterday the federation says the executive did not believe to be correct the statement of Mr W. J. Poison, M.P., of the alleged utterance of a British Minister that: “If New Zealand does not reduce tariffs the Dominion will be subject, firs", to a preferential duty, and, second, to restriction of imports into Great Bri tain. ’’
"However," the statement adds, "the executive regarded it as a very serious matter to resort to such methods in "attempting to influence the Government and the Tariff Commission. We recognise, moreover, that strong measures were necessary to scotch this action immediately. This has now been achieved; and the Manufacturers' Federation will continue its work of placing evidence before the Tariff Commission to substantiate the claim that o'ir existing tariff is moderate, reasonable and rather below the limit imposed by the Ottawa Agreement. We shall be helped by the Prime Minister's cabled message that 'Britain has expressed every approval of New Zealand's preferential treatment 0* British good-3.' »
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Northern Advocate, 19 July 1933, Page 6
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