TARIFF CHANGES
Per Press Association. Wellington, May 15. The local Industrial Association, after some 18 months’ deliberation and discussion, has sent in a report to tho Government which embodies tho decisions arrived at. The-report includes recommendations received from other Associations, and generally speaking it is in favour of taking off or reducing the tariff on some articles of food—on sugar, for Instance, by 3s per cwt. To protect the engineering trade a tariff of per cent, is suggested on machinery which can now he made in the colony through tho patents having expired. An increase is recommended on candles, the manufacture of which is said to he languishing under tho present tariff.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8813, 15 May 1907, Page 2
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112TARIFF CHANGES Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8813, 15 May 1907, Page 2
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