MORE CONTROLS REVOKED

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24582, 2 June 1945, Page 6

MORE CONTROLS REVOKED

METALS, FURNITURE, AND PAPER

ANNOUNCEMENT BY MINISTER OP SUPPLY

CP.A.) Wellington. June i. “The lifting of some War-tithe restrictions can now be carried a. stage further,” said the Minister of Supply (the HOh. D. O. Sullivan) in . a statement this evening, announcing the gazetting of further revocations and relaxations affecting 11 controls administered by the Factory cohtrdller. Some of these controls, of necessity during the War period, had restricted production, while others had been used to divert imparted materials to the didst essential uses. , - The following control notices are affected:—Machine -Tools and Engineering Equipment, Non-ferrous Metals, iron and Steel; Drawing and Mathematical Instruments, Household FiiniD tUre Manufacture, Cardboard BOX and Carton, wrapping, waste Piper, paper (Supply ahdjmportatiort), Paper (Getlr end), and Paper (Manufacture and s&lc) „ i Although, said the Minister, the legal notice varies or revokes the re-strictions-supplies were not back to pre-war levels, and restraint must therefore be exercised by those com cerhed, in takihg. advantage of this additional freedom. Referring to paper, Mr Sullivan said that although thC position was much easier, it was still hecesSary to maintain some restrictions, SUch aS bn the publication of periodicals and the printing of directories, maps, posters, and other simllar items. ReferTihg to furniture, the Minister said that the emergency standard speCL fleation of the manufacture of household furhiture Was no longer, mandatory, but it was essential that the industry Should maintain the production Of the type of furnitufe required particularly by returned servicemen. Radio GablnetManittactUre ~ As from this week, addfed the Minister, there would be nd legal restriction on the manufacture of radio cabinets. The question of the resumption Of the manufacture of domestic radio receiving sets Would be dealt with later, when the present war contracts were hearing completion. It whs nej cessary, however, to have, a. supply oi cabinets manufactured well in advance of the receiving sets. ~ Thfe revocation of the iron and steel notice allowed the use of iron and steel for purposes Which previously were prohibited, but U still, would-be necessary -for a lime to obtain releases of those metals in the same inafiner aft previously. While control ovfer nonferroUs metals had been removed, care would still be hecesSary to avoid ahX wasteful use of the metals included in that group. , • ' The remaining conttolS oVet factory materials were subject to continuous review, and SS Sobh as advices from abroad indicated that a revocation or relaxation of further controls was practicable, this SUt delay. Concluded the. Minister.