PROTECTIVE TARIFF WANTED.
INCREASED DUTY ON MOTOR CAR
BODIES.
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, April 13. The convention of the New Zealand Association of Carriage Builders and Wheelwrights this morning received a deputation which urged tihat steps should be taken to have the duty on n^otor car bodies increased. communications that were laid before the convention indicated that there was a concensus of opinion among employees and employers in the coach-working industry that a»n increase in duty on motor car bodies (which can be made in the Dominion) was equitable and even essential if the trade of carriage-build-ing was to continue to exist as a trade. A resolution was unanimously adopted setting forth the opinion that the time was now opportune that in the interests of the carriage-building trade, the Customs tariff should be revised.
Mr W. Atkin (Auckland) in pointing out the need for protection, said that water carriage was the cheapest means of conveyance ; hence our butter, cheese, frozen meat, etc.,-could compete in the world's markets 16,000 miles away.This assisted us also in the matter of freights on our raw materials, but, per contra, the freight on a buggy from New York was about the same as by rail fromAuckland to Hamilton (85 miles).
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20054, 14 April 1914, Page 5
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205PROTECTIVE TARIFF WANTED. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20054, 14 April 1914, Page 5
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