tariff secrecy

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 459, 14 September 1928, Page 13

tariff secrecy

REVISION CRITICISED BUSINESSMEN’S OPINION “? C “ SSlns tbe Tari « Board proS‘ the Auckland Chamber of oniS a yesterday expressed the should n hat tlle boards doings Press ° Pen to public and t~'° t ion C th»t exprossed the opinion that there had been cases no known lloß had been removed? for of people unkno°wn. and &t the request was n r e emo S ved' h bu r t the prlco exactly the same now? and iv e don t know why the tariff em ° Ved ’’l sald Mr - J- A. C. Alluni. aim? ,F members remarked on the ° f placin S evidence before the board, not knowing what they had lo meet. T* l ® chamber’s executive reported that it was not satisfied with the work- - tariff boards abroad, but it felt that m any future commissions set up in connection with periodical revision or tariff the personnel should be extended to include men outside the Government service, and its proceedings should be open to the Press.* Mr. G. Finn moved that the chamber suggest a permanent tariff board, constituted by extending the functions of the Board of Trade, enabling the revision of tariffs more frequently than once in five or six years. Mr. A. Boucher believed that New Zealand was not a prospective manufacturing country, owing to its small scattered population, a view that Mr. Finn contended was quite wrong. He considered the necessary curtailment of immigration was a most serious step. New Zealand could not progress and have a large population until it had manufacturing industries. The amendment was lost and the executive’s recommendation adopted.