IMPORT LICENSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 300, 20 December 1938, Page 12

IMPORT LICENSES.

"NO UNDUE PREFERENCE." • ; • • :'r, C v. ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT. "No undue preference will be extended to personal or sectional interests," states the Minister of Finance* tho Hon.* W. Nash, a telegram to the Bureau of Importers, in referring to the licensing of imports. He adds that to maintain production and provide for the local manufacture of goods for which sterling exchange is not available, it is essential to provide for the importation of raw materials necessary for local manufactures. "To ensure the maximum conservation of sterling runds," he adds, "all imports of commercial commodities are, however, subject to license." Licenses issued for urgent imports, which include materials required to maintain production in Auckland factories and machinery; now total ISO in tho Auckland district. • - There has been no move by the Customs Department to issue general licenses for imports, and the; applications, which are being received .'at the rate of - huiylreds' daily, arc accumulate ing rapidly. Besides those lodged by Auckland importers,. many applications are arriving through the post from country towns and ' from other.-centres where the. head offices of- firmswith branches * in, Auckland-, are situated. .