DUTY ON FILMS.
RESTORATION OF FORIV3ER ONES. QUOTA SYSTEM PREFERRED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The restoration of,the old duties on cinematograph films, free and foreign one penny a lineal foot, instead of the proposed increase of 3d a foot on foreign films, is provided for in the customs resolutions passed in the House to-day. According to the Minister of Customs, Hon YV. Downie Stewart, the quota system as a means of helping British industry is preferred, and a bill dealing with that method will be brought down later in the session.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17223, 5 October 1927, Page 7
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