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manufacture, sends the flower of the colony to other lands, and annually exports hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling to be expended for wages in foreign countries, while our own wageearners arc crying out in vain for employment. The Conference, in analysing the tariff, have only dealt with those articles which they conceive are connected directly, or indirectly, with the industries of the colony. Their conclusions as to the lines which should be admitted free, or bear varying degrees of duty, are based upon the accumulated mass of opinion from those engaged in the various manufactures and industries of the colony, always having due regard to the personal considerations which are apt, more or less, to unduly affect the minds of those largely interested in special directions. The Conference believe that, if the changes proposed by them in the Tariff and their suggestions and recommendations are given practical effect to, it will stimulate every existing industry, increase the home production, give a larger wage-earning power to the community, and be the means of establishing new industries likely to prove of great economic importance. 7. The following are the proposed changes in the tariff:— Changes in the Customs Tariff recommended by the Delegates appointed from the various Industrial and Protection Associations of the Colony of New Zealand, in Conference assembled, at Wellington, 28th March, 1888.

Account books .. .. .. 25% ad val. Acid, acetic .. .. .. .. 3d. \* pint or lb. Apparel and slops, except hosiery,— Whether wholly or partly made up from woollen piece - goods, being vestings, trouserings, coatings, and shirtings containing wool, broadcloth, witneys, naps, flannels, mantle-cloths, cloakings, and ulsterings .. .. .. .. 30% ad val. Whether wholly or partly made up (except articles just mentioned), viz., aprons, breeches, coats, capes, cloaks, costumes, collars, cuffs, sleeve and sets, crinolines, camisoles, dresses, furs made up, frocks, fronts, infants' hoods and hats, infants' swathes and bibs, jackets, knickerboclcer suits or portions of suits, leggings, mantles, muslin and net scarves, nightdresses, pants,pelisses, petticoats, pinafores, ruffles, robes, shirts of all kinds, skirts, stays, shawls, trousers, tunics, vests, wristbands ; men's, women's, and children's underclothing; ties, scarves, neckerchiefs; and all articles used for like purposes .. .. 25% » Apples, driccl .. .. .. 2d. "p-lb. Axes and hatchets .. .. .. 15% ad val. Axles, axle-arms and -boxes other than patent, axle-blocks .. .. 25% „ Bags made up of calico, hessian, linen, and foifar .. .. ..25% „ Baking-powder .. .. .. 25% „ Baskets and wickerwaro .. .. 25% Bellows .. .. .. .. 25% Blacking .. .. .. .. 25% Blankets .. .. .. .. 25% Blue .. .. .. .. 2d. 'i* lb. Boiled sugars .. .. .. 3d. „ Bolts and nuts — J-in. and over, except blank nuts and bolt-ends .. .. .. 25% ad val. Under J-in., excepting blank nuts .. 20% „ Bonnets, except straw, chip, willow, tape, and braid, untrimmed .. .. 40% , Boots and shoes, present English size to bo the standard, except children's No. 3, viz.,— Men's Nos. G and upwards .. .. 33/ \* doz. prs. Youths'Nos. 2 to 5 .. ..21/ Boys' Nos. 7 to 1 .. .. .. 17/6 Women's Nos. 3 and upwards .. 19/G Girls'Nos. 11 to 12 .. ..10/ 7to 10 .. .. 11/G Children's Nos. 4to G, and slippers .. 0/ , Women's lasting and stuff boots, without military heels .. .. 13/ „ Goloshes of all kinds .. .. 4/ Slippers, men's, women's, and children's, Nos. 7 and upwards .. 9/ » Gum boots to be exempt. Boot and shoo vamps and uppers .. 25% ad val. Bottles of all kinds (empty) .. .. 3d. 'P doz. Bottles, of glass or stone, containing a reputed quart, or any less quantity, of spirits, not perfumed; wine, ale, porter, and other beer ; aerated, or mineral waters .. .. .. Gd. %* doz.

Bottles containing pickles .. .. 3d. '(j* doz. Bottles, all other kinds .. .. 25% ad val. Brasswaro, builders' and cabinetmakers' castings and furnishings .. .. 15% , Brass manufactures, not otherwise enumerated .. .. ..25% Brooms and handles .. .. .. 25% „ Brushware, manufactured wholly or in parts, excepting wire-brushes, artists' and painters'brushes .. .. 25% „ Buckets and tubs, wood or iron .. 25% , Butter .. .. .. .. 2d. lb. Candles, all kinds .. .. .. 2Jd. „ Capers .. .. .. .. 20% ad val. Caps, apparel .. .. ..25% „ Cardboard, 14 J in. x lOJin., and under .. 25% „ Carpets and druggets .. .. 25% „ Carriages, carts, drays, and wagons (including second-hand), all carts and wagons without springs, springcarts and spring - drays with two wheels .. .. .. .. 20% Tilburies, dog-carts, gigs, Boston chaises, and other two-wheeled vehicles on springs or thoroughbraces .. £10 each. Express wagons, wagons for carrying goods, single and double - seated wagons, and four-wheeled buggies without tops, mounted on springs or thoroughbraces .. .. £15 each. Hansom safety - cabs, single and double-seated wagons, wagonettes, and four-wheeled buggies with tops £20 each. Omnibuses and coaches for carrying mails or passengers .. .. £10 each. Barouches, broughams, mail phajtons, drags, and other carriages not otherwise enumerated .. .. £50 each. Railway-carriages and tram-cars .. 25% ad val. Raw material for building railway-car-riages and tram-cars, and patent fittings .. .. .. .. Free. Manufactured parts of carriages not otherwise enumerated .. .. 25% ad val. Carriage material, carriage- and cartwheels, carriage springs, carriage and buggy cart shafts (bent), dressed spokes, felloes, and naves .. 25% , Elm hubs, rough spokes and felloes, shafts and poles, in the rough, if unbent and unplained .. .. Free. Catsup .. .. .. .. 4/ '■$■ doz. pints. Cement .. .. .. .. 2/ barrel. Chaff .. .. .. .. 30/ ■& ton. Cheese .. .. .. .. 2d. V lb. Chocolate and cocoa .. .. .. sd. „ Churns .. .. .. .. 25% ad val. Clocks—Chimes, steeple, turret, and any finished parts thereof .. .. 15% „ Clogs and pattens .. .. .. 25% ad val. Coffee, roast .. .. .. Od. lb. Confectionery,not otherwise enumerated 30% ad val. Cordage, viz.: — Coir rope .. .. .. .. 5/ cwt. Hempen and other cordage (except galvanised and other iron and steel cordage), including all housing and seizing line and spun yarn .. 11/3 „ White lines and other descriptions of cordage not otherwise specified, except coir yarn .. .. .. 28