CUSTOMS TARIFF.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17062, 15 August 1917, Page 5

CUSTOMS TARIFF.

NEW TARIFF ANNOUNCED

ALTERATION TN TOBACCO TAX

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 14. Resolutions were agreed to by th© House of Representatives this afternoon authorising the 'following preferential surtax on the undermentioned goods not being the produce or manufacture of the British Dominions :

All articles n.o.e. made of textile, felt, or other piece goods, or of any combination of the same, wholly or partly made up or manufactured, and not being apparel or clothing either wholly or partly made up; drapery n.0.e.; Hags; haberdashery n.0.e.; laoe a<nd laces n.0.e.; ribbons and crepe; all kinds of rugs (woollen, cotton, opossum, or other); textile piece goods, n.o.e. (including silks, satins, velvets, plushes, n.0.e., composed of pure silk or of silk mixed with any other material in the piece, and including also imitations; silks composed of any material or substance whatsoever; umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades; yarns n.0.e., 10 per cent ad valorem.

" Were" apparel and ready-made clothing n.0.e., feathers, ornamental (including ostrich); artificial flowers, leaves and sprays; furs and fur trimmings; hats of all kinds, including straw hats, also caps; hosiery n.0.e., millinery of all kinds, including trimmed hats, caps, and bonnets, 12J per cent, ad valorem.

Apparel made to the order and measurement of residents in New Zealand, and intended for the individual use of such residents, whether imported by the residents themselves or otherwise; apparel, viz., volunteer clothing, made to measurements sent from New Zealand, 20 per cent ad valorem.

It was also resolved that the rate of duty on cigars, snuff, -and cigarettes manufactured in' New Zealand, as imposed by a resolution from the Committee of Ways and Means, dated August Ist, 1917, be revoked as from that date, and thiit duty be payable on cigars, snuff and cigarettes manufactured in New Zealand, if so manufactured and entered for home consumption, after August Ist, 1917, as follows: (a) On cigars and snuff 4s. the pound-; (b) on cigarettes, if manufactured by machinery, 3s. 6d. the pound: on cigarettes, if made by hand, 2s. the pound: provided that if the manufacture of cigars and snuff containing less than 75 per cent, of tobacco grown in New Zealand becomes, in the opinion of the Minister at any time hereafter, detrimental to the revenue, the Governor-General may, by Order-in-Council, fix the maximum quantity of such cicrars and snuff that may be made annually by any manufacturer at the aforesaid rate of 4s. the pound, and may prescribe a rate of duty not exceeding 6s. 6d. the pound unon all cigars and snuff mao.ts in excess of such maximum quantity.