TARIFF PROPOSALS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 18 July 1907, Page 3

TARIFF PROPOSALS

Wellington, This Day,

The principal alterations in the tariff are Almonds, free ; boiled sugars and and confectionery, 3d per lb instead of 2d ; dried fruits, currants, dates, figs, prunes, raisins, maizena, and cornflour, mustard, spices (ungronnd), sugar, treacle and molasses, tartaric acid, cream of tartar, soda, carbonate and bi-carbon.ite, cotton piece goods of all kinds, linen piece goods and unions of same, window glass (crown and plate), paper bangings, lead in sheets, vegetable oils in bulk, and sporting powder are all free alter October 31st, The following arc reduced from 25 to 20 per cent Lace ribbons, silks. Britishgrown tea must lie in packages over jibs to be tree, Chemicals, drugs, patent medicines, sarsaparilla are raised 5 per cent. Surgical and dental instruments, formerly free, will now pay 20 per cent. Hosery is raised from 20 to 23 per cent. Mouldings of a'l kinds are raised from 15 to 20 per cent. Billiard furniture is reduced from 25 to 20. Handbills, programmes and printed advertising material is raised from 20 per cent ad valorem to 3d per lb. Halftone and line blocks, formerly free, now pay 25 per cent. Shot cartridges are raised from is 6d to 2s fid per 100, cash regisU rs from 10 to 20 per cent. Hydraulic cranes formerly tree, pay 20 per cent- Electric ma chtnery and appliances, with gasometers and gas-making appaiatns, are raised from 10 to 20 per cent. Iron pipes over 5 inches in diameter are raised from 5 to 20 per cent. Motor cars, formerly paying 20 per cent., now come in free. Potatoes pay £1 per ton instead of 20 per cent' Bine is reduced from 2d to id per lb. Candles are raised to Gd instead of id per lb. Cork is reduced from 20 to free. Paraffin wax is raised irom f|d to id. hood preservatives, maltine, cblorodyne, and waterhardening chemicals are taken from the free list and included as drugs. Magic lanterns, cinematographs and like instruments are raised from tree to 20 per cent. Locomotives, formerly free, are included as steam engines at 20 per cent. Crude gas oils, formerly free, pay per gallon. Artificers’ brushes go from free to 25 per cent.