TARIFF CHANGES.

Wairarapa Age, 23 August 1934, Page 5

TARIFF CHANGES.

WELCOMED BY NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURERS. TWO INDUSTRIES SAID TO BE SAVED. CHRISTCHURCH, August 22. General satisfaction with the readjustments to the tariff proposed in the Customs Bill is expressed by tobacconists, tobacco growers and manufacturers of electric appliances and nails. It is considered by the makers of electric stoves and nails that their industries have been saved by the alterations in the tariff rates. The New Zealand manufacturers of cigarette papers are pleased that they will now have to face the competition of only British manufacturers, as the papers have to be hand packed. The cheap labour of foreign countries has given foreign papers a great advantage. Tobacconists state that the revised tobacco duties will be more favourable -to the New Zealand growers than those originally proposed, owing to the increase on the duty on tobacco for the manufacture of cigarettes from 2s 6d to 3s. This would be a great help to New Zealand growers and to the New Zealand tobacco industry generally, which in the last year had shown remarkable growth. It is now believed that New Zealand-made electric ranges will be able to get a share of the market in competition with imported ranges. The decision to maintain the existing duties on nails two years longer is approved by a representative of one of the only two nail manufacturing firms in the Dominion. He hoped that if the duties were lifted at the end of two years the industry should be able to carry on against overseas competition. ■