MAGAZINE IMPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 25 October 1930, Page 14

MAGAZINE IMPORTS

BACK DATE ISSUES A question in regard to the importation of magazines was asked in the House of Representatives yesterday morning by Mr. J. A. Young (Reform, Hamilton)/. ... -Mr. Young asked .the Minister of Customs whether, he had, looked 'into the allegation. , widely . circulated throughout the Dominion, that large quantities of back-date magazines totalling 500,000 per a.nu.um, anil printed, in a foreign.- country, were .imported regularly into. New Zealand and sold at such competitive prices as to seriously prejudice the'local production and sale of magazine literature; and, if" so, would the Minister make v statement as to the attitude of■ the Government towards placing a dumping duty on the offending back-date magazines referred to.- ... ■■■.■' "The question', as to the importation of batk-datp magazines has been investigated,", said the. Minister (the Hon. J.G. Cobbe).' ''Such magazines of British and foreign origin are, I am advised, not secoifd-haud publications, but are new books of earlier issues printed in excess of the demand at publishing date. They arc imported into Isew Zealand under ordinary regular trade conditions operating throughout the world, and in those circumstances there is no legal authority for the imposition of dumping duty. It is not considered to be in the public interest to restrict the dissemination of knowledge. There is, of course, ample provision in the existing law to deal with undesirable literature." Voices? "Hear, bear."

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