Camera Sales
Sir.—My heart bleeds for the Professional Photographers' Association, but it bleeds still more for those people who wish to buy cameras. I shall give on example. I bought a well-known Japanese camera over the counter in Singapore for £2B. New Zealand duty on such a camera is 50 per cent, and to send it by parcel post would cost 7s 9d. This camera is on sale in the protographic shops in Christchurch and elsewhere at a price of £74 10s. Photographic dealers would buy well below £2B. If they bought from Hong Kong the price would be about £24. Somebody in New Zealand is making a very good profit from the public. If a member of the public wishes to purchase a camera from overseas and pay the New Zealand duty he is debarred, as he will not be granted an import licence. There are many new camera shops and they evidently get a licence for importing, but John Citizen cannot Yet the camera trade wants still further protection and to accomplish this by blocking the overseas traveller from bringing back a camera.—Yours, etc.. FREE TRADE. May 8, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29508, 9 May 1961, Page 3
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