BANNED IMPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 68, 18 September 1944, Page 6

BANNED IMPORTS

THE LATEST LIST

Among the items which have been added to the prohibited list of imports into New Zealand next year are bobby pins,' women's full-length stockings rmide of cotton, silk, or artificial silk, electric ranges, domestic gas cookers, tobacco pouches, drill paint brushes, coconut oil, dog chains, and the undercarriage springs or couplings for use in connecting trailers to motor vehicles.

For the current year imports of women's stockings have been "controlled," that is, ■ applications are considered individually in relation to actual requirements, and importers were, called upon to produce evidence that supplies were" available overseas.

The allocation for children's boots and shoes, sizes 0 to 9, has been reduced by half, and next year merchants will be permitted io import up to 150 per cent, of the value of imports in 1940. At present the figure is 300 per cent. Combs specially suited for hairdressers' use and fine tooth combs, which are now-prohibited, will be controlled next year.

There has been a reduction iii the quota for watches. The new schedule allows 100 per cent, of the value of 1938 licences, compared with the present allowance of 150 per cent. The .schedule again states that licences should be used particularly for watches of a type suitable for the Armed Forces, and adds that provision is made that the value at the factory of Swiss watches must not exceed 35 Swiss francs.

Articles which may be obtained from Canada include asbestos, veneers and plywood, fishing nets, cordage and twine suitable for fishing lines manures (other than sulphur), emery paper and emery cloth, bolts, nuts screws, washers (except rubber), ball cartridges, .22 calibre, road graders engines specially suited for use on tractors or traction engines, electric motors and generators, starters, and controllers for electric motors, copper, copper bars and rods, non-ferrous metal cordage, non-ferrous pipes, tubes, and tubing, timber, rough sawn or rou«h hewn, woodenware and turnery and saddle-trees.