ADDITIONS TO TARIFF.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 680, 5 July 1870, Page 3

ADDITIONS TO TARIFF.

On and after the 29th June, 1870, the following Rates of Duty, in lieu of those before in use, under the Tariff Act, will be collected, and new Duties on the articles mentioned below will be levied throughout New Zoaland:— ALTERATION IN TARIFF ACT. S. d. Bacon and hams per lb 0 If Beef and pork, salted, per cwt "... 4 0 Butter per lb o 3 Cheese per lb 0 2 Biscuits, plain, per cwt 6 0 Meats, potted, per cubic foot ... 5 0 Jams, jellies, and marmalade per cubic foot 5 0 Fish, potted and preserved, and fish paste per cubic foot 5 0 Fish, dried, pickled, or salted, the cwt. ... ... ... ... 4 o Oysters, preserved, the cubic foot 5 0 Rice per cwt 2 6 Maizena and com flourpercubicfoot 2 0 Groats, prepared, per cubic foot ... 2 0 Cordage, 3in. ana under, per cwt 6 0 Soap, common, per cwt ... ... 3 6 Blankets and rugs per cubic foot ... 5 0 Leather, other than sole, per lb. ... 0 2 Saddlery and harness per cubic foot 4 0 Furniture and cabinet ware of wood per cubic foot 0 9 Doors, of wood, each 2 0 Sashes windows, per pair 2 0 Timber, sawn, per lOOfeet superficial 2 0 Shingles and laths per 1000 2 0 Palings per 100 2 0 Bails per 100 4 0 Posts, per 8 0 Wine, in bottle, the gallon 5 0 NEW DUTIES. Grain not otherwise described per 100 lbs 0 9 Flour and meal per 100 lbs 1 0 Hay and Straw per ton 10 0 Chaff per ton 20 0 Eggs per cubic foot 1 0 Signed, W. SEED, Secretary Customs.