PALMERSTON NORTH AND MANAWATU RESIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1943, Page 6

PALMERSTON NORTH AND MANAWATU RESIDENTS

THIS CONCERNS YOU. For years the New Zealand public has been suffering from the effects of the import restrictions. This panic measure was introduced in 1938, only a few weeks after Mr. Nash. and his colleagues, in their election speeches, had been assuring the public that things were never rosier. At first it was admitted import restrictions were necessitated by the financial situation, but later when the Government recovered its breath it said they were intended to promote New Zealand manufactures, although hundreds of the lines banned could never be manufactured here. Owing to import restrictions, foodstuffs, clothing, footwear, domestic hardware, and countless other essential or useful things became unprocurable. As an example of the stupid bureaucratic methods that were pursued, the Government in March, 1941, rejected an offer of 15,000 cases of canned Fijian pineapple, although the firm concerned was prepared to invest the proceeds in the Dominion. Don't risk a repetition of this bungling. Give the shopkeeper—and. yourself—a. break. —Advt.