Over The Tariff Wall

NZ Truth, Issue 1143, 27 October 1927, Page 4

Over The Tariff Wall

TS it any wonder that New Zea-

land is the happy dumping ground for all things foreign ? On an average practically every ship from England entering New Zealand ports dumps about 10,000 super feet of butter-box timber m sections ready for assembling here. This timber is foreign, its manufacture into box sections foreign, and the stencilling of the particular dairy corporation's name is done by foreign labor. Transhipped at London it is re-shipped to the Dominion. The cream of the joke lies m the fact that 7/6 duty is charged on every 100 super feet on its entry into New Zealand, but when these same boxes containing New Zealand butter leave the country the Customs Department allows a rebate of this amount! New Zealand timber is at present being used to make butter-boxes and quite successfully, but, as usual, the joke is against the home industry. So much for the Government's idea of protection.