CUSTOMS RATES REVISION

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1933, Page 6

CUSTOMS RATES REVISION

NO MODIFICATION AT ONCE PARLIAMENTS CONSENT NEEDED. inquiry into tariff to made. “UNCERTAINTY NOT JUSTIFIABLE.” By Telegraph-Press AssociationWellington, Last Night. A statement that there was xw tjon for the feeling of £ to possible modifications m the tariff was made by the Minister of Finance (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coate ?j,_£j® commenting yesterday on an aHegatio made in certain quarters that. and business wen were holding orders in suspense ©wing to possible changes m ffie tariff. x “So far as the Customs tariff is concerned it is true that an inquiry is about to be put in hand,” Mr, Coates said- The Government is already in touch with United Kingdom in this connection and the personnel and order of reference of the commission will be announced at an early date. In the meantime, however, we cannot do more than hold an inquiry and formulate recommendations. No change in the Customs tariffs, except of course where there are existing powers vested in the Government, can be made except by Parliament and no session is in prospect for several months. “The Government will lose no time in bringing before the House reconunendations that result from the inquiry, but careful investigation is first required ana, as I have said, it is obviously impossible to make any change in the immediate future.”