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MR ELLIOT’S DESIGNS
The weekly journal, the “Independent,”. comments on the tariff proposals: “New Zealand is determined to find a way of breaking through the complications of Ottawa and the new economic policy. She has now abolished a great many of the duties on imports from Great Britain. Electrical and chemical goods, hardware, linseed oil, and certain animal foods are, it seems, to be put upon the free list. When it comes to musical instruments, duties have been reduced by 60 per cent. Medicines, cigarettes, and paints are to be charged 25 per cent, less and similar reductions have been made in other cases. Perhaps the most important of these alterations is in connection with the import of motor-cars. British vehicles are now subject to a 15 percent. duty which compares with the duty of 73£ per cent, on motors from other countries. If only Mr Elliot can be restrained from his design to shut up New Zealand in the interest of his marketing boards, we shall quickly get back to a state of trade with that Dominion as prosperous as in the days before the war.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 September 1934, Page 8
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189QUOTA SYSTEM Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 September 1934, Page 8
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