THE AMENDED TARIFF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 August 1907, Page 2

THE AMENDED TARIFF.

Per Press Association. Wellington, August 22. Uadev the amended Uirill' resolutions, the following alterations are made:— Imported confectionery has leiefied 'buck to the rates charged prior to the original tariff brought down last month. Plaked maize lias been altered from 2s to Is a bushel. Surgeons', physicians, dentists' and opticians' instruments, on which it was proposed to put 20 per cent, iTavc been replaced on the lree list. Ilaw cotton is also placed on l'ree list, and the new duty on cotton goods does not come into iorce until 31st December. Amended duties on hoots and shoes, clogs and patterns n.o.e., — men's above size No. 5, Is (id per pair and 15 per cent ad valorem; .No, 1, Is per pair and 15 per cent; boys, No 7 to 1, Ud per pail' and similar ad val.; woinen'B, above size No. 1, Is and 15 per cent; girls' No 7 to 1, 15 per cent; slippers, if lelt with felt soles, and shoes and goloshes known as plimsolls, with moulded India-rubber soles, 22% per cent. Printing inks remain free, and are placed on the preferential tarill'. The duty on ■ cartridge cases is altered from Is (id to ' Is per hundred. Electric generators and ■ motors, electric lamps, including globes , for arc lamps, and electric transformers are subject to a duty of 10 per cent; othyr electrical machinery 20 per cent. An amendment has 'been made in iron pipes and wrought iron pipes over Gin in diameter. Iron pipes up to Din free, over Sin 20 per cent; pipes required for municipal purposes will bo admitted free. On vestas, tin vestas, and sportsmen's ovals, duty will be charged on the number of matches in each box. Hags of textile or felt, if printed, are charged 25 per cent. Articles placed on the free list include rice meal, refuse of rice meal, l'ruit juices, tea in bulk, and packages not less than 51b (under 51b the duty will be twopence -per lb), sodium peroxide, etc. Dentists' and surgeons' materials has been widened by the addition of the words "such other appilances and materials peculiar to surgical or dental use as may be from time to time enumerated l>y the Minister." Moulded shoe and slipper soles are made free to eueourage manufacture in the colony. I Glass bottles and earthen jars, up to 3in lat the mouth, are free; above that size '2O per cent; films for kinematographs are iree. Sunday school tickets and reward cards, Scriptural or religious, not exceeding 5d a dozen invoice value, and not exceeding Gin by 4in in size, are free. Brass tubing and stamp-work in the rough, suitable for gas fittings, etc., are free. Various articles connected with electric appliances are free. Motor ears hare been struck out of the free list, but chassis for motor cars, including wheels, are free. Motor car bodies pay 20 per cent. Engine packing is free. The following are struck out of the preferential tariff:—Bacon, hams, glucose, honey, walnuts, pearl barley, split peas, acetic acidj cattle chaff, barley, grain, pulse of every kind, horse onions, potatoes, prepared calf meal, also motor cars and the wheels for them, cream separators, and parchment paper for butter, bottles and jars, axle arms and boxes,