IMPORTED FOODS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29548, 24 June 1961, Page 16

IMPORTED FOODS

Few Allowed

Unless stocks imported under licences granted so Bar this year are sufficient to last sax months more than they were ordered BoY. New Zealand is going to halve few imported foods for the first six months of next year. The supplementary import licensing schedule covering January to June 30. 1962. gives' a D allocation to many food and grocery lines. The ctassifleation means that no allocation is provided and that licences will not be granted unless the circumstances are most exceptional Cigarettes and cigars and tobacco exicept unmanufactured tobacco for local manufacture. are in the D category, and there will be no imports of beer, wines, and liqueurs. Spirits will be among the imports for which licence applications will be considered individually. Tee in bulk will be allowed in to the extent of 25 per cent, of 1960 licences. Coffee, the imports of which have increased greatly in recent years, will be subject to individual application, with a proviso that licences will be plus 20 per cent, of 1960 Licences. This applies only to naw coffee. Roasted coffee and coffee essence will be prohibited. Raw cocoa beans will be allowed on individual application plus 15 per cent of 1960 licences. All types of confectionery except medicated will be in the D category, as will biscuits. Oranges and bananas are made subject to individual application, but there is no allocation Bor grapes, grapefruit. and mandarins. Tinned fruit, including pineapple, is also given a D grading. Ca;>ere. canraway seeds, and caviare, pickles, sauces, soups, fisih pastes and cheese from overseas will also be absent from grocers’ shops once the licences already granted have been used.