The New Tariff
(PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION } Christchurch, May 20. At a meeting of manufacturers today ,~a reisbliitfoh was passed approv-" ing of the Customs : Duties 'BiU^ l A* public meeting will be held to-morrow kto further consider- the subject. A petition to Parliament in favour of the biR is being .^prepared. •■-. if Dunbdin, May 20. The Coach Builders' Association have resolved that the alteration in the tariff is detrimental to the carriage building trade on the ground that raw material is raised from 5 to i . 10 per cent., but manufactured car- . riages only 5 per cent.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 135, 21 May 1887, Page 2
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98The New Tariff Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 135, 21 May 1887, Page 2
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