IMPORT LICENCES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22593, 24 December 1938, Page 18

IMPORT LICENCES

ISSUE AFTER CHRISTMAS STATEMENT BY MINISTER LPKZUS ASSOCIATION TSLEOKAU.} WELLINGTON, December 23. Import licences will be issued immediately after the Christmas vacation, said the Minister for Customs (the Hon. W. Nash) to-day. Arrangements had been completed and they would be issued by Coli lectors of Customs. Mr Nash said that those applying for licences could be of great assistance if they could classify their goods according to the grouping of tariff items. There were several hundred items in the tariff, and it made it much easier to handle applications if the goods were classified under one of these. In a few individual cases, information would be necessary about particular classes of goods where a tariff item included a comprehensive list. DUNEDIN APPLICATIONS MORE THAN 2000 RECEIVED BY CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT DUNEDIN, December 23. Already about 2000 individual applications have been received by the Customs Department in Dunedin for import licences under the new regulations, these covering goods from corsets to salt; but so far licences have been issued only for essential foodstuffs and necessary manufacturing articles. ELLESMERE RAINFALL RECORD FOR DISTRICT APPROACHED A further 126 points of rain recorded up to Friday morning brought the December total for Ellesmere to 3.93 inches and the year’s total to 36.40 inches, only 44 inches short of the record for the district. Rain has fallen every day for the last eight days, and in a period of five weeks the figures were 6J inches. Farmers would welcome a few weeks of fine weather, for crops and pastures have all the moisture they need for some time.