COMING SESSION.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20312, 23 May 1934, Page 13

COMING SESSION.

Minister’s Revision of Customs Tariff. One of the principal reason? for the Minister Dt Customs (the Right Hon J G. Coaxes) taking a trip to South Westland to ensure freedom from interruption while he considered the report of the Tariff Commission. This work is now well in hand and the new Dominion tariff is likelv to be announced early in the coming session Mr Coates explained, in an interview last night, that there was a large amount of work in the Customs tariff and there were many matters which required detailed and uninterrupted consideration. In replv to questions, he said that he hoped to be able to bring the Customs resolutions, embodying, the new tariff, down early, in the session, thus enabling business people who were delaying operations until that took place to resume their ordinary activities. It is also the intention of Mr Coates, who is Minister of Finance, to make a comprehensive statement as to the position of the Dominion’s finances at the end of March—the end of the financial year lie has not yet received the audited figures from the Comp troller and Auditor-General, but he hopes to have them in time to issue a review before the session begins on June 2S. A few weeks ago, when the approximate returns were delivered to Mr Coates, he announced that he expected the deficit for the past financial year would lie £700,000 instead of the £2,000,000 originally estimated.