IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 67, 16 February 1939, Page 10

IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.

SOME BEING RELAXED. Per’ Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 14. Applications for licenses to import certain classes of seasonal goods for the second period of the year are now being considered hy the Customs Department in Auckland. Few licenses for the second period have actually been issued. Throughout the past few weeks the department has been maintaining the rate of issue of licenses for the first six months of the year, and to-dav the total licenses issued reached 16,425. A few hundred applications for the first period remain to tie dealt with and, though applications are still coming in. the end of the accumulation is in sight. Some of the restrictions imposed on certain classes of goods, under the Import Licensing Regulations have now been relaxed, and will apply to the first six months’ period of the year. Cuts had been made on the importation of books of foreign origin, and these- have now been withdrawn, but publications which give prominence to sex. obscenity, horror, terror, cruelty nr crime are still subject to restrictions. In this category are many types of pulp magazines. English l>ooks are still admitted without subjection to a predetermined cut. The reduction that applied to assembled motor cycles lias bren dropped. The withdrawal of cuts also applies to armour plate or toughened glass that is chiefly used for motor vehicles.