JAPANESE COMPETITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 8

JAPANESE COMPETITION

i PROTECTION SOUGHT EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY HIGHER • DUTIES WANTED j V- 1 (I'er Press Association.) CHItISTOIIIJBCJEI, i.tst night. Before the Tariff Commission to-day, Norman John Such ling gnvo evidence on behalf of Robert Malcolm, Limited, respecting e.otton goods. buttons, elastic, haberdashery, wearing apparel, and general drapery. I He asked that British cotton piece goods remain o'i the free list. British buttons were free, and lie asked for a duty of 70 per cent on Japanese and -Italian buttons. The witness said that elastic was duty free, wearing apparel, British 27 i per cent, hosiery 27A per cent, and cotton and shoe laces 20 per cent. He asked that general tariffs on elastic should lie JO per cent,' and on wearing apparel 77 per cent. On hosiery he asked that the British duty be 20 per cent, with a general duty of 47 per cent. Shoes and laces, he urged, should bo free from Britain, with a 100 per cent g ( neral tariff. British goods met heavy competition from Japan iri all cotton fabrics. For carpets and rugs, witness asked that the •present duties,

i 27 per cent British and 70 per cent Igeneral, be reduced to British 20 per cent and in part 17 per cent, and I gun era I 47 per cent and 40 per cent. foreign nun-: gutting Ernest W. Reed, secretary, and Francis W. .1. Belton, engineer, of the Christchurch tins Company, spoke of ithe 1 1utics on ammonia, one of the products of gas nmiiul'ncture. 'flic present rates were British free, general Id per lb, and Aiislrnlinii free. They asked, that the rates be British 20 per I cent, Australian 20 per cent, and Con t mental 70 per cent. I Mr Belton said that the company ‘had for some time considered the manufacturing of benzol, but had not considered, it a commercial possibility if benzol had to pay the same taxation ,as petrol uinlet the present <-on Id it ions. W.illt complete exemption from tax, the proposition would be just worth while to the company. George Henry IJolford, representing Imperial Chemical Industries, said that sulphate of ammonia was at present duty free front till sources. He asked that the new rates be British free, and general 17 per cent. The duty would not increase the price to the farmer, but would slop sporadic foreign pricc- ! cutting,, chiclly from Japan. III. I.

PROUD OF DOMINION VICEREGAL EULOGY COURAGE IN ADVERSITY DEEP-ROOTED STAI.iI El TV (IVr .Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last nighl. Bride in the coinage and the determination that the people of New Zealand had shown during the last few diflieult years, and coiitldenee in the nation's future, welfare, were express ed by Lord Bledisloe speaking at the J>omitiion Day reunion, of the Early Settlers and Historical Association of Wellington this aflernoon. * * I t is on this, day more than on other days in the year that we look back and look forward," His Excellency said. “There are many countries in the world that eniinol consciously and ronlidently look back with entire self-satisfaction C> their past history. There need be no qualms in this 'country, however, in looking over its comparatively shorthistory, and feeling lob only a pride in the past, but also a buoyant conlideiiee; in tin* future. • Twenly-seveti, years ago this then

so-called: colony became a. Dominion, ” said Hi.s Excellency, “entering into the status of a great .self-governing unit of the greatest Empire in the world. This is a dislincl ion conferred on bill few other countries, and. a dis-tinct-ion, in spile, of its size- and rein lively small population, of "which New Zealand has shown herself to la- abuie, dually worthy. During the last two years she has found herself in the greatest economic crisis with, which tlic world has ever been confronted, a crisis from which the world, litis not yet completely emerged, and a prob iem which the great economic conference ims failed to solve. .But I want to take this opportunity of saying, because now we see the light on the horizon, and we believe that brighter times are coming, that I feel proud of the courage ami determination, self-reliance aml resourcefulness, that this country has shown during the (lilticul! years that have lately passed. ’ ’ .Referring to the manner in which those in. want- had faced the situation, His Excellency said it was the strongest evidence of the deep-rooted stability of the country, which was. going to curry it to a higher position than it had ever occupied.