BRITISH EXPORTERS RUSH TO BEAT AFRICAN CONTROL
(Rec. 11.50 a.m.) K LONDON, March 11. Striving to beat the Malan Government’s order controlling imports to South Africa, British export firms have packed the Southampton docks with cars, machinery, bicycles, wireless sets, whisky, tobacco, cigarettes, clothing, shoes, and bathroom equipm The order requires that the goods permitted to enter South Africa must have left British factories by midnight today. There are 500 railway wagons in dock today awaiting unloading. The South African restrictions were imposed to reduce the country’s adverse balance of trade.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 March 1949, Page 5
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