Commenting upon tho "Customs froak"': in New Zealand, which resulted in the wrappers and boxes from a quantity of soap on which,.nd valorem duty had been paid being taken, off and weighed and ' made to pay extra', duty of two shillings under tho tariff which:.imposes extra duty of 3d. per lh. on printed matter, the "Chemist and Druggist of Australasia" says that this tariff was obviously meant to prevent circulars and advertising matter, printed abroad by cheap .labour, being imported into New Zealand, but the idea of going to that trouble to levy ratra duty of 2s. on an article bearing 25 per cent., ad valorem duty, and valued at £150, was "a brilliant idea, and one for which any man in an ordinary business would hsvo got a severe wigging."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 9
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131Untitled Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 9
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