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MOTOR-CYCLE SALES DELIVERIES NEGLIGIBLE LICENSES EXHAUSTED (P.A.) ' WELLINGTON, April 15. A statement in reply to the Minister of Finance and Customs, Mr. W. Nash, on the importation of motor-vehicles from Britain was issued yesterday by the United Kingdom Manufacturers and Representatives’ Association. “This association agrees with tha Minister that there has been no actual ban placed on the importation of motor-vehicles from the United Kingdom,” the statement reads, “but our principals in Great Britain may be entitled to assume that such is the case owing to the fact that practically all the 1948 import licenses for motorcycles have been used and that the residue available is negligible for future orders. “It must immediately appeal that the quantity for 1948 of 650 motor-cycles is totally inadequate, remembering that the 1948 licenses were actually issued in early August of last year and a large quantity of machines arrived here before the end of December last and were cleared on the 1948 licenses to which the Minister of Customs was in agreement. “As the position stands today, unless some further assistance is given by means of additional licenses, this trade throughout New Zealand is faced with a very barren period.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22612, 15 April 1948, Page 4
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