TARIFF REVISION.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2373, 1 June 1906, Page 5

TARIFF REVISION.

run * Nin e press association. Wellington lime I Tin* ('liamber ot C minii-n e i'ar ‘ Revision Committee lias presented it s ’port. Generally speaking, ii lavouU the abolition ot duty on the nec* saries ot life, ineluding the entire remission ol the duty on sugar. Ii sees no reason why the tobacco duty should be reduced. Regarding hard ware, the report states that tin iucimnlics which exist are the result ot the Commissioner's interpretations men than the tariff itself. Recommend, (ions n the direction ol simplifying tlu* tariff and rendering it Uniterm m regard to hardware ale made, rad also in regard to sott good-. In .** sped of drugs, ivconiincndnt ions are made favourable to the encourage ment ol local in iiili lat lures, and tiu Chamber Inis adopted the i epoi I . which concludes ns follows: The several sections of your committee do not pretend that they have called attention to all the existing anomalies in tin* present tariff , hut they have gone sufficiently far in that direction to show the need there is lor a general reconsideration ol the tariff and the Cominiss oiicr’s decisions, and tu-com mend iluit the Government l»* asked to appoint ail n<!\ is n v hiiord ol e\ ports, representing different hratielies of trade, to assist the Cotnniissioiioi in arriving at Ids decisions. This would g<» a long way towards removing the anomalies that now exist, and which, under tlu* present unaided ile cisions of the Commissioner, are likely to arise in the future.