IMPORT CUT APPEALS
Powers Of Board x ? Of Trade •
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 9.
“Pi cannot understand why the Minister of Customs (Mr Boord) and the Associated Chambers of Commerce should t be arguing about setting up an import appeal authority when there is already one in existence?’ said the former Minister of Customs (Mr Halstead) yesterday.
“The Board of Trade has' statutory powers to handle import appeals and advise the Minister : pf Customs,” he said. “Its’ personnel are well qualified to hear import appeals. “It was our practice invariably when there was an element of doubt over an importing problem
to refer the case to the board. Importers who used their right of appeal to the Board of Trade in the past have been satisfied that they received a fair hearing.”
Mr Halstead said that for the last six years the Board of Trade had prepared the annual licensing schedule y and done it with an ■ increasing degree of satisfaction to the commercial community. •
“Mr Boord would be well advised to use the board to help him in his administrative difficulties over import appeals,” Mr Halstead said.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28531, 10 March 1958, Page 12
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