CUSTOMS TARRIFF.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11847, 31 May 1919, Page 7

CUSTOMS TARRIFF.

Per Press Association ■Wellington, May 29. The Hon. Myers, at the Chamber of Commerce, said the question of dumping had been brought under his notice as Minister of Customs and a clause dealing with the matter had been drafted for submission to Parliament when the opportunity arrived. The New Zealand tariff, added Mr Myers, was not sufficiently elastic to meet the rapidly chanigng conditions of trade and commerce. Rectifications were required in many directions, but, as matters stood, alteration could not satisafctorily be made except at a time of general revision of the tariff. The Government had under consideration a scheme by ■which, when it appeared advisable, the tariff on any article should be altered, the matter could be referred to an advisory committee. On the recommendation of this committee, the Minister of Customs, with the approval of the House of Representatives, would be able to modify the tariff in the direction deemed necessary. He believed some such scheme would be of great advantage to manufacturers in New Zealand, and especially to those who were establishing new industries.