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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13625, 19 December 1907, Page 7

Importations of Chinese and Japanese shoes are likely to be a thing of the past (says the Dunedin Star), as the new duties, which came into operation on October 31, will assuredly prohibit any such importations. A case has come under our notice where a local firm of importers had to pay duty amounting to £5 on a shipment of Japanese shoos valued at £1. The new tariff provided for tl» payment on the shipment referred to of a duty of Is 6d per pair and 15 per cent, ad valorem, together with a further preferential duty of 9d per pair and 7£ per cent, ad valorem. It is also a certainty that shipments of boots from America will decrease, as when preferential duty is added the total duty payable ranges to a basis of 40 per cent, on the value of the boots and shoes. The cracks which appeared in the arches of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, N.S.W., a couple of months ago, on the occasion of the creep on the hill, are widening, and a large crack baa appeared in the whole thickness of the north wall. The Auckland Islands are the homo of colonies of penguins, who possess a Jienulrkable homing faculty. After nesting they migrate to other island*, returning with unerring instinct, each to its own islet and its own nest. •