GERMAN GOODS
REACHING NEW ZEALAND. REPACKED IN AMERICA. (Special to “Star.”) WELLINGTON, August 31. Js it possible to prevent the importation of goods of enemy origin? -- .’Air T. K. Sidey suggested during the final stage of the War Regulations Continuance Bill to-night that it would he difficult to stop the arrival of German goods, despite the perpetuation of regulations designed to prevent their importation. He thought that in any case this stand ought not to be indefinitely continued. New Zealand had lost a good deal through its prohibition of enemy goods, because they were bought at low rates in Germany, repacked in America, and shipped to the Dominion at high rates. Ho quoted an instance where German mails had been imported "through this devious channel. It involved the payment of preferential duty, but, the goods could easily stand those charges.
Sir W. H. Tlerires remarked that the country of origin had to he declared. Air Sidey retorted that the goods soon lost their identity. 1
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1920, Page 5
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