TARIFF INQUIRY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 10

TARIFF INQUIRY

PRESENT DUTIES SUPPORTED MALT EXTRACT AND LEATHERS [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIN, Wednesday The Tariff Commission hoard further evidence to-day. The retention of the present tariff of 20 per cent or 2d per lb. on malt extract was claimed by the Dunedin Brewery and the Wilson Malt Extract Company. Mr. C. A. Wilson said that as dairy faotory owners claimed their right to be regarded practically as a primary industry so did his industry claim a similar right. It was unwise on the part of the New Zealand farmer to demand a reduction of duty on malt extract, which was going to penalise the New Zealand barley-grower in favour of foreign-grOwn grain.

Witness took exception to the suggestion that New Zealand extracts lower in quality than imported extracts. He said he was prepared to submit his extract for comparative analysis with the English importation by independent analysis. There was no hope of carrying on without a duty. The manager of Glendermid, Limited, tanners, asked for the maintenance of the present duties on leathers. The witness expressed regret'that hides were not prepared with more care for the market. Hides without marks, such as brands ami horn marks, commanded MO per cent more than hides that were marked.

Kcmpthorne, Prosser and Company's New Zealand Drug Company, Lim-, ited, was represented by Messrs. J. Stark, manager, and W. B. Seymour, factory manager and chemist. Representations were made that the present duties be maintained on the lines the company manaufactured, including salines, fluid magnesia, milk of magnesia, pills, tablets and ointments, also extract of malt, all of which the company produced in large quantities for the trade generally and for hospitals.