Textile man wants import controls

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33676, 28 October 1974, Page 16

Textile man wants import controls

(New Zealand Press Association} M TIM ARV. Disappointment that the Government had not reimposed more controls through import licensing was expressed by the president of the Textile and Woollen Mills Association (Mr B. A. R. Spence) in Timaru.

> Commenting on Govern-p ment measures to hold 1 Spending. Mr Spence sug-i Sgested that greater controls I • should be placed on non-b i essential items. ; He also wondered if the ; Government, in the light, of i I the present situation, might' ! reconsider the use of acquisition to bring stability to ! the wool sector of the farming industry. ’ Mr Spence was one of: ; those who attended the i meeting called by the Govlernment in Wellington on j Wednesday. I “I am disappointed that i there was not more emphaIsts placed on the need to

reimpose more controls, through import licensing particularly on non-essential, items. I certainly do not say that there should be more controls on the import of capital equipment for farm-' ing and raw materials for industry,” he said. Mr Spence said that the Prime Minister had indicated that an increase in import; controls was a somewhat , sluggish method of bringing about greater liquidity, and; that the Government had not taken any urgent measures? But Mr Spence did not discount the possibility that there would be quite severe import controls within six to ' nine months.