Preferential Tariff for New
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Guinea Timbers
UNDER new tariff regulations promul gated recently in Canberra, un dressed timbers from New Guinea will be admitted into Australia at British preferential rates, as follows: (a) In sizes not less than 4 inches in width and not less than 3 inches in thickness for the manufacture of boxes: British preferential rate: free; general rate: 1/- per 100 super feet; and (b) In sizes less than 7 feet 6 inches by 10g inches by 21 inches for use in the manufacture of room doors in buildings: British preferential rate, 4/- per 100 super feet; general rate, 6/- per 100 super feet.
Importers also pay a special war duty equivalent to 10 per cent, of the amount of duty payable.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Koch, of Madang, New Guinea, arrived in Australia in February.