N.S.W. TARIFF.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3025, 3 December 1891, Page 2

N.S.W. TARIFF.

SERIOUS EFFECTS ON N.Z. TRADE. (BY TKLEGRAI'H.—OWN' fIOISIIKSI'OVDKST.) Auckland, La«t Night. The new tariff in New South Wales, winch raino into force yust»rlav, will seriously affect this colony, being d 1 'iio-t prohibitive in such linns us flour, oatmeal, linn, pollard, chalf, hay, str.iw, and potatoes. This in a serious question, as Sydney was nno of the poits 11 which we exported largs quantities of our surplus produce, and the a nr.nnt sent thorn was folly three times as iniicli a« thnt sent elsewhere. During thu pa-* , ; season largo quantities of potatoes were exported In Sydney, and oven then sold at from €1 to Kl 10<'per ton ; an additional 10s per ton tariff must therefore effect lally close the iiKirki't for pi.tat >es. Such an imposition as 10.i per cental nn grain must also ho almost prohibitive as far as this colony is eoncirned, imposed upon barley, beans, oats, peas, and wheat. There does not appear to be any levy upon maiz", or else it has not been mentioned in the eablegrims. Jiir?n quantities of butter were sent, to Sydney last summer, but it is questionable whether the riutv of '.id per po'ind now imposed will ha ■.• thu effect of shutting this out, though fm new duty on bacon should seriously affect the export of that article.

(IIY TEMSGItAPir. —PRBSB ASSOCFATIOV), Sydney, December 'J.

A fifteen t>er cent, ad valorem duty imposed on luxuries is expected to yield £77,000 and a ten pur cent, on general artJcles I'.Vf.ilOO, besides .specific duties yielding £278,000.

In the House Mr G. If. Ueid, leader of the Opposition in nn incisive speech tore tho budget proposals to pieces and declared tha f . if tiixitinn is required it should be d:me by t:ixint' the land and all wealth nnd not by imposing bunions on thoso whose only means of livelihood is labour.