Removing Anomalies.
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Papua and New Guinea Products.
T'HE Minister for Customs in the Com monwealth Government tabled a re solution in the Federal Parliament, to remove certain anomalies which had been created in adjusting the Customs tariff to comply with the Ottawa agreement.
To bring certain products of Papua and New Guinea into line with preferential duties accorded British non self-govern ing colonies, a number of specified pro ducts will now be admitted free of duty.
The items are:—Areca nuts, cocoa beans and shell, massoi oil, unground dry gin ger, sago and tapioca, unground spices and vanilla beans.
The Minister said that later he would aiove for the addition of certain dry gums to the list of free goods.