IMPORTED TOMATO PULP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 December 1930, Page 6

IMPORTED TOMATO PULP

REDUCTION OF DUTY A TEMPORARY MEASURE ONLY (l!y Telegraph—Special to "The Mail") CHRISTCHURCH, Ist December. Tomato growers need have no fear that the reduction in the duty on imported tomato pulp, which was made last July at l-hi request of the sauce and pickle manufacturers because of the damage done to local crops by unseason able frosts, will bo carried over to apply in tho coining season also, unless there is again an emergency need for it, for information which has just been received by the Department of Industries and Commerce in Christchurch makes it plain that the measure was a temporary one only. A deputation representing the Cantorbury Stono Fruit and Tomato Growers' Association waited on the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association asking the association to help in getting the old duty of 100 per cent, on imported tomato pulp restored, the reduced rate bein;; 20 ner cent, with 1 per cent, primage. Tho concession granted for the benefit of the, sauce manufacturers, who otherwise it is stated would not have been able to secure enough pulp for their" requirements, has already ceased, The communication from the Department in Wellington announces that at the boginning of last July the department was notified that in order to assist the sauce industry the importation of tomato pulp of British Empire origin sufficient for each manufacturer's requirements, would bo permitted at the reduced duty. One of the nrovisions of the concession was that pulp so imported must centain a percentage of salt not less than the percentage used in making tomato sauce or n6up. so that the pulp could not be used' for anything else than its permitted purpose.