Will Mr. Nash Explain?

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 105, 27 January 1940, Page 8

Will Mr. Nash Explain?

Sir,—ln this morning’s issue of “The Dominion” Mr. Nash is reported as stating in defence of his extraordinary letter to an Auckland importer that "Tire course chosen by the Government has been to restrict those goods, the importation of which is considered uuneeessary in the interests of the community generally, either because they can be displaced by goods niade in New Zealand, or are unessential.” Will Mr. Nash, therefore, be good enough to tell the women of New Zealand the name of the town or district manufacturing cotton and other haberdashery lines? The whole of these are prohibited, and, as I believe they are not manufactured in this country, I suppose Mr. Nash in his great wisdom, considers that they are unessential. Ask any woman, especially if she makes her children’s clothes, as to whether reels of cotton and other similar articles are “essential.” One would think that a man’s own sense would tell him without question that children’s clothes, as well as ours, have to be made, and that haberdashery lines are necessary for the purpose. Let Mr. Nash sally forth from his exalted office and try to buy a reel of white cotton, and see what happens. —I am, etc., BRENDA JACKSON. Wellington, January 23.