N.Z. HAT MANUFACTURE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 10

N.Z. HAT MANUFACTURE

TARIFF REPRESENTATIONS OTTAWA PROTECTION FORMULA DUNEDIN, Sept. 6. \ At this afternoon’s sitting of the Tariff Commission evidence was tendered by hat manufacturers, and Mr E. A. Mander, for the parties engaged in the industry, explained that this was a joint case for two manufacturing companies in Dunedin and two in Wellington. It was claimed that the protection afforded to the industry was now somewhat below the level of the Ottawa formula, and it was requested that the industry should be regarded as one industry especially suitable for the application of tho principle recommended by the Imperial Economic Committee on Imperial Industrial Co-opera-tion, under which semi-manufactured goods should be imported from the United Kingdom while New Zealand industry should be safeguarded as regards finished goods in the Dominion market. The industry made use mainly of imported materials, the greater part, of which were imported from the United Kingdom in a partially processed state. If the present plants in the Dominion were working to full capacity the number of hands at present employed would be doubled. Evidence of a confidential nature was fliven by several witnesses. hibition amendment.