PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 September 1907, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

FRIDAY'S SITTING. Per Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. ' THE TARIFF. the 1 ",! t'v'ntT/™ 9 I,r °l' oscd t0 >»«ke the duty ot y 3 d per pound on ausir " P sntv o in 00 * ""T and t0 ' n 1 1,;: U t '"? P ° ce g00(ls im P«rt«l ,", "'• M,,sse y said this clause was «iong >n pr,i, cl ple, and he was opposed , Mr. Millar Sl ,id the Cook Islands people asked t„ be allowed to collect winch the Islands had collected dutv .7,!^ a "' iyb .V th ° tariff, nnd thev ' Had to (lenvc revenue from somewhere.' '

Hie lau p ,„,„ can . K ,,i by 42 vofcs to U. the Minister moved another clause providrng that raw cotton should be admitted free if imported under a va d contract made before January Ist Mr James Allen moved to substitute June for January.-Negatived by 33 to The clause was agreed to. Another new clause moved by the Minister provided that nothing in sections 28 27, and 28 should "apply to mods delivered in pursuance of bom '.do contracts made between a purchaser and an importer in business in New Zealand unless the importer acted as agent of some other person.—Agreed to Tlie resolutions were agreed to hi Committee of Ways and Means, and wore included in the Bm. The Bill was then reported. The House adjourned at 1.3 a.m.