TYRES AND TUBES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20571, 3 June 1941, Page 3

TYRES AND TUBES

PERMISSION TO IMPORT Still another alteration has beei made by the Customs Department iv importing conditions affecting cycle tvres and tubes, according to information received by merchants. Licenser to import such goods from the United Kingdom may now be amended tc enable supplies t.o be obtained Iron Australia to the extent of 25 oer con of the value of such licenses. The original prohibition on import for the fifth period under the tarif grouping was later amended in tin case of cycle tyres to permit tli 'granting of licenses up to 25 per cen of the 1938 value of imports from al sources for importation from the United Kingdom. This allocation wa; subsequently increased to 45 per cent In the case of tubes, an amendmen •o the schedule made the allocation t the United Kingdom 33 1-3 per cen of the value of 1938 imports from a' sources. This allocation was increased! about a month ago from 33 1-3 to 100 per cent. A member of the trade in Auckland said that certain sizes of tyres could be obtained from Australia, bu' (lie difficulty would be to yet tubes for an inquiry by turn showed tha manufacturers there were faced wit! the difficultv of obtaining the metaparts of valves which before the wa were usually obtained from Switzer land. The shortage of some sizes o tyres, but more particularly of tubes was verv real in the Dominion. i.. 1 . i