THE TARIFF COMMISSION
FURTHER EVIDENCE HEARD (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 10. . The Tariff Commission had a brief sitting this morning. John Henry Taylor, manager of Messrs Thomas Heany and Co. (N.Z.), asked for an increase of 5 per cent, in the duty on imported handkerchiefs, bringing the tariff up to 25 per cent. He also requested that the duty on dutiable art needlework be maintained and the present non-dutiable art needlework be placed in the same category as that on which the duty was charged. Almost the whole of the evidence and the whole of the examination of the witness were taken in private.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21977, 12 June 1933, Page 8
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