IMPORTED CEMENT
REMISSION OP DUTY MAY CONTINUE. Mr. Wilford (Hutt) _ stated in tlie j House yesterday that it had • been announced soma timo that the duty' would be lifted from cement and that' poisons importing supplies would be nlfowed to dispose of them. He understood that it bad been arranged lator that tho duty wa"s to ba paid, thousrh application could bo made for a refund, and that tho distribution of tho imported cement was placed undor tho control of the Board of Trade. What was fho position to-day.r Tho president of tho Board of Trnde (Mr. Lee) denied that tho arrangement had been made as sußßOsted. Tlio Government had psrmitted the importation of a certain amount of cement subject to a refund of duty, the distribution to bo controlled by the Board oi Trade..,lf necessary ii' further amount ol ctment would' be allowed to enter the . country duty froe, but in all cases this | muet be done through the board, ihe: | duty was to be paid and a refiuid applied 'Jot.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 8
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172IMPORTED CEMENT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 8
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