VARIOUS REQUESTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1933, Page 12

VARIOUS REQUESTS

THE TARIFF COMMISSION

(By I'elegTaph.—Prese .Association.) CHBISTCHUBCH, September 28. Printers'ink and printers'materials, gelatine and glue, barley and cereal stock foods were the subjects of evidence before" the1 Tariff Commission today. ■.'.','"•■ ,-.■.. . ' .. ; Charles John. Morrison, of the- firm of Morrison and Morrison, printingink manufacturers and printers' warehousemen, asked: for increased- duties in -printers'Sink:'anil printers', roller compositions :- ' -"-He -asked for the increase because of; the heavy taxes iev-led;-in - New Zealand,' tho. High coastal freight, and the higher wages ruling here. Ho'atated also that the company wished to increase its volume of trade to make possible the lowering of costs. His' firm did not ■ manufacture the cheaper grades of printers' ink such as those used in printing newspapers. 1 George Francis / -Davis, director of i Davis Gelatine, Ltd.; asked for an iv- ■ crease in the duties on gelatine. The present duties were British 2d a pound or 20 per cent., and foreign 4d-a pound or 40 per cent., whichever returned the j greater. Ho asked for an increase to British 2d or 25, per cent, and foreign •id or 50 per cent. He said that he used New Zealand waste products and could supply the whole New Zealand market. He wished the duty increased because foreign suppliers occasionally picked the eyes,out of his market by offering low prices to big customers* -Mr. J.- Koborts, union secretary, on behalf of the workers in the garment industry, asked for the maintenance of the present duties on. manufactured clothing. .■■■•He was apprehensiye about competition; i'rpm clothing made under sweating conditions by outworkers in the clothing centres., of . England. Garments that we re out, of fashion in England were sold to colonial buyers at! any prieo they would bring. . Mr. C. H. Hewlett and others, on behalf of barley growers, asked that| tho duties of 2s. a cental on barley, 2s on ground maize, and £l.a ton | on bran and pollard be reimposed and that the duty of 2s ,a cental on unground maize be retained. Witnesses pointed out that during the years .1927 to 1929j when no cereal pig feed was imported, the export of pork increased. When the duty was removed in 1930 and cereal feed entered freely; the export of pork decreased.. The importation of Australian . barley, added a penny a pound to the price of pork, and this, with the halfpenny difference enjoyed by Denmark by way of freight charges, meant that New Zealand pork was poniilised 1-Jd compared with Danish. It-was contended that the duty was removed to encourage pigraising, bnt that the removal had'not achieved its purpose. ;