NO INTERVENTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 10

NO INTERVENTION

IMPORT CONTROL

REPLY TO PETITION

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, June 7,

The petition of the Bureau of Importers at Auckland to the GovernorGeneral asking that the import control regulations be no longer enforced was handed to Lord Galway on Friday.

Since then the Attorney-General, Mr. Mason, has announced that the judgment affecting the regulations 'will be the subject of an appeal to the Court of Appeal, which will begin sitting on June 12. Legal formalities involve an application for a hearing, and this will probably be heard next Monday.

It is expected that if the application is granted, the hearing will take place in the following week.

The following is the text of the reply received by the bureau from the official secretary to the Governor-Gen-eral, Mr. D. E. Fauhy:—

"With reference to your letter of June 2, with which you enclose a petition from the Bureau of Importers, praying for immediate suspension of the import control regulations, I am directed by the Governor-General to say that, as his Excellency has been informed that an appeal against Mr. Justice Callan's judgment is to be brought before the Court of Appeal during its next session, on June 12, he does not feel justified in intervening in a matter on which the Courts of the Dominion have not yet finally pronounced."

Mr. W. A. Boucher, president of the bureau, said today that no reply had been received from the Prime Minister to the bureau's inquiry as to whether he had given instructions to the Customs Department to deliver all goods withheld.

Many firms throughout the Dominion were seeking to obtain merchandise held on the wharves without presentation of a licence.