THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 234, 15 October 1901, Page 3

THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

FEB PBH33 ASSOCIATION. Sydnet, October 14. The Herald says the opinion is Almost universally amongst commercial men f V.a' H... F der*l tariff means ruin to New Zealand's export trade in produce to The paper continues: —" Had New Zealand seen fit to enter the Federation instead of imagining a S uth Se* Federation of her own, until Mr Ohambnrlcin put en end to that ' Alnasscbar's day daenm,' all the Commonwealth ports would have he°n opened to her producers. New Zealand would lwve shown a mors neighbourly fpirit if her public men had helped us with a discussion on our financial problem. It is clear enough that pome of the duties are so high as to piove that the' Federal did not impose; »h'<m f.>r revenue purposes. The New j crimes ar« quitu right- in de- j Fcrib : ng these duties as non-revenue j raisi-g, but f fankly protective." j Adelaide, October 14. Owijig to the tariff, most of the] cigar and tobacco f.io'ories in this city j have been closed, the former pet-j manently, and the latter temporarily. 1 Three hundrfd men, besides youths : aD d women are idle. The manufac- j : turera claim that they cannot compete i jtfth cheap Manila and German oigars. \ . , .• Jb. . - „■ •