TARIFF COMMISSION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 June 1933, Page 5

TARIFF COMMISSION

FURTHER EVIDENCE

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

WELLINGTON, This Day.

Before the Tariff Commission to-dav Mr Leslie William Wooley made a plea for a reduction of duty on dictaphones and equipment. He said thgy were made only in America and bad to bea>' the duty imposed on American gramophones. He also sought a reduction in the tariff on loadometers, which he said were made only in America and were for weighing heavy vehicles and were used only by controllers of public highways. Sir Paul Dolby Trickett, representing Trickett and' Co., contended that the landing costs on glue and gelatine from England were excessive and detrimental to the community in that the protection afforded the local product was too high. Manufacturing printers considered the local glue not suitable and that it was loading their costs unduly. Mr Mander, representing the Manufacturers’ Federation, intimated that there ■would be objection to the request, also to th A request for the subdivision of the item. A representative of Littlejohn and Co. applied for a reduction of the duty on British electric clocks.