HARDSHIP PREDICTED
IMPORT RESTRICTIONS BRITAIN PENALISED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The president of the United Kingdom Manufacturers’ Nov/ Zealand Representatives’ Association, Mr. David Hogg, interviewed, said: "We are faced with further restrictions which will cause great hardship to the people of New Zealand as a whole and will tend rapidly to increase unemployment. Commerce here is in a great state of confusion, arid with • the advent of war has been further disturbed.”
After reference to the export of primary produce, which was the lifeblood of New Zealand, being possible only through the goodwill and cooperation of Britain and the British Navy, he said: “It must be a matter of deep regret to a large body of New Zealanders that teh, state of internal affairs should debar them at this time from rendering assistance to Great Britain by providing to a fuller extent the sinews of war, v:?.., Britain s export trade.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 6
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153HARDSHIP PREDICTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 6
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