The New Tariff.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 28, 1 August 1895, Page 2

The New Tariff.

I PER PEESS ASSOCIATION^ Christchurch, July 31. The jewellers of Christchurch, employers and employes, have prepared a petition to the Colonial Treasurer, protesting against the duty of 25 pef cent, on cut and uncut jewels, on the ground that the previous free admission of these enabled the manufacture of jewellery in the Colony, and the giving of employment to a large number of men. The Bootmakers' Union to-day sent a telegram to tbe'threp Christchurch members and Messrs Kelley and Pinkerton : — " Boot trade council disgusted with new tariff. Our eviclep.ee before Commission not considered." Dunbdin, July 31. At a meeting of the City Council tonight the Mayor drew attention to the new duty of 20 per cent ad valorem on gasometers and gas appliances. He said the Council would have shortly to import a new gasometer which would cost from L 15.000 to L 20.000, and the duty would come to about L 2,000. That seemed an enormous tax on a public body, and at his suggestion it was agreed to communicate with the Government and the local members, urging that local bodies, who erected their qwn gasworks, should be exempt fron? the tax. ' Messrs Beid and (?iay complain of the duty on threshing machines., and point out that they cannot be made in the colonies for years. The only result oPtbe duty, they say, will be that farmers will be charged higher rates for threshing. '