EFFECT OF NEW CUSTOMS TARIFF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 191, 21 August 1900, Page 2

EFFECT OF NEW CUSTOMS TARIFF.

[phe rmasa ahooutiov.) ™ Wiluxotoh, August 20, At Auckland there wan large clearances at the Ouitomi on Saturday owing to the tariff alterations. The following is a summary of the views of the looal manufacturers and importers :-DruggUt houses loss heavily by tue reduction on patent medicines, the candle industry will close if the proposals are adopted, salt-makin* plant already eractod. in Auckland, aiJotbew to be erected in the southern centres cannot proceed if the protection of Urn shillings per ton is remits the coffee industry will be seriottsly hmf»ni. The reduction on rfce |d per pound to the public.

Enquiries made in commercial circlse at Wellington go to show that then it a consensus of opinion that fee "*HW and match industries must go to the wall through the tariff alterations, bat some of the merchants do not anticipate the collapse of the silt, coooe, and coffee manufactories, though it is admitted they will be more or leas hampered; on the other h«i»jf the manager of one of toe hum meroantile houses in the city takes the view 1 that the remission of duty on eels, coffee, and cocoa must practically IdU the local product. The manager of the New Zealand Candle Factory etKaiwarawara, states that unless theOovemment reduces the duty on paraffin by Id, or restores the duty upon «*HIeX the industry will be unable to enst la | New Zealand. The manager for Messrs. \ Bell, manufacturers of vestas, statu i that it will be quite impassible to carry '* on the industry in New Zealand with' 4 out the duty. Two city mercantile ' houses have received offers from * Holland firm to supply matches at a price beyond all hope of looal eonpetition. With regard to4he remission of the kerosene duty, and the redaction of duty upon tea, thereappears to be comparatively little dissatisfaction in Mr* cantile quarters. The Industrial Association appointed a committee to act with other associations in making representations to the Government re chang's in tariff,