THE NEW TARIFF.
DEPUTATION TO THE MINISTER. Per Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Questions regarding the interpretation of the tariff law in reference to shoes and slippers were discussed to-day between the Minister of Customs and representatives of importers from Wellington to Auckland. A question at issue apart from interpretation was one of payment of duty. Slippers pay 22V, por cent and shoes one shilling a' paiiTp'lus 15 per cent. The Minister said Parlia-
men I hail agreed that slippers with soles of fell, twine, ami carpet should be admitted at 22% per cent, and that would lie adhered to. He added that the idea 01 the duty under the new tariff was to foster the slipper manufacturing industry of New Zealand by reducing the dutv on goods that could not be manufactured in the Dominion and putting the duty on those goods which could be manufactured here. If he now made a definition of slippers which was going to cut into the local manufacturers he would undo the object that Parliament had in passing the tariff.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 82, 26 March 1908, Page 2
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176THE NEW TARIFF. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 82, 26 March 1908, Page 2
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