SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY
BRITISH DUTY ON ENAMELWARE, (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, June 9. Tho House of Commons yesterday passed a resolution imposing a safeguarding duty of 25 per cent, for five years on enamelled ware. Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, president of the Board of Trade, recalled that the original duty had been imposed in 1922 by Mr. Lloyd George’s Government when it realised in 1924 that foreign import* had increased, but not to such an extent as to persuade the safeguarding committee in 1926 to advise the reiinposition of the duty. Freeh elaime before the identical committee had now succeeded because new evidence, including Hie statistics of the census of production, had been adduced showing that six out of 18 firms in this country haxl been compelled to close down.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1928, Page 9
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