DUTY ON MOTORS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12548, 10 September 1926, Page 11

DUTY ON MOTORS

HELPING BRITISH TRADE BELIEVED INEFFECTIVE. Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, September 9. At the motor conference, Mr A. L. Edwards (Wellington) proposed, and Mr Hope Gibbons seconded, that this conference, representing 90 per cent, of the wholesale and retail motor dealers of the Dominion, views with extreme dissatisfaction the Customs duties imposed upon motor vehicles by the Government, and is of the opinion ; that such duties will be entirety ineffective in accomplishing the avowed object, namely; the increasing of local ' body-building, and' the encouraging.of the importation of-English motors. It deplores the'method adopted in rush- ' ing such important legislation, without proper investigation, through Parlia- : ment in the dying hours of the session, thereby prejudically affecting public and private interests, and requests the .Government to provide facilities for a oloser investigation of the economic effects of such duties levied upon notor vehicles during the tariff revision of next session. The resolution was carried unanimously. It was also resolved to ap. point a Tariff. Revision Oommittee in Wellington, fully empowered to press for such legislation in motor'taxation as shall be most advantageous to the industry.