AUSTRALIAN IMPORTS
Restrictions Not Imminent <N .Z Press Association —Copyright ) MELBOURNE. November 18. The Prime Minister of Australia (Mr Robert Menzies) said last night that tighter import restrictions were not an immediate prospect He was speaking on the "Prime Minister’s Press Conference.” the first television programme to be transmitted simultaneously from all Australian television stations. Mr Menzies said next year wou'd require careful management. Asked if that would include more or tighter import restrictions he said: "I would hope not. I can’t read the future, but they are not an immediate prospect." Replying to another question, he said no "miserable limits" should be set to the kind nf help the Government should give the search for oil. The Deputy-Leader of the Opposition (Mr Arthur Calwell) said in a broadcast election talk last night that a Labour Government would not take "one penny" from any pay envelope to pay for its proposed social service indreases. Mr Calwell said that Labour’s social service policy was both "eminently practical and financially sound ” He said Australians had been robbed of much of their earnings and savings by inflation.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28747, 19 November 1958, Page 10
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