THE NEW TARIFF.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1921, Page 5

THE NEW TARIFF.

PROTEST AT SPIRIT DUTY PRICES TO BE HIGHER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At a meeting held by the national executive of the licensed trades of New Zealand the question of the increased duties on beers and spirituous liquors was discussed. It was decided to request a united voice of the licensed trade in New Zealand in an emphatic protest against the increase by 100 per cent, of the already heavy taxation which was out of proportion to the general increases on the Dominion’s taxable commodities, and the incidence of such high taxation must necessarily compel an increase of prices to that large section of the public who are already the heaviest payers of voluntary taxation. RECIPROCITY IN TRADE. NEW SYSTEM SUGGESTED. Auckland, Last Night. The Auckland Industrial Association’s executive has forwarded the following resolution to the Hon. W. Downie Stewart: “That the suggested three-schedule tariff under the headings indicated by the resolutions concerning the tariff schedules fails to meet the necessities of the Dominion’s secondary industries. The demand of all secondary industries has been for an intermediate schedule, upon which would be placed only such countries, whether British Dominions or specially favored nations, as would reciprocate. The executive strongly urges that the first column should apply to the United Kingdom only, and that all other countries be placed in the third column, except those which express their willingness to reciprocate, in which case they be placed in the intermediate column.”