IMPORT LICENSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 2

IMPORT LICENSES.

GOODS FOR STATE USE. Per Press Association AUCKLAND, Feb. 16. “With a view to facilitating the issue of licenses in respect of goods imported by merchants and private contractors for supply to Government departments,or for use for Government contracts, it lias been decided,” said Hon. \Y. Nash, to-day, “to modify the procedure in connection with the applications for licenses. In making applications in respect of the first licensing period, merchants and private contractors included in the value of their imports during the corresponding period of 1938 the value of imports of goods supplied to the Government! as well as imports for ordinary business purposes, and _ licenses have been issued accordingly. ’ It is considered preferable, in order to avoid any difficulties which may arise in that regard, that so far as import licenses concerned goods imported for supply to the Government they should be made the subject of separate applications in future. It will accordingly be necessary for importers to show the value of goods imported in 1938 excluding the value of goods supplied to Government departments, such latter value being shown separately. 1 Ordinary licenses will he issued on the basis of the former value. Separate applications should be made from time to time in respect of goods specially imported for supply to the Government, or in the replacement of goods supplied ex-ordinary stocks.”

The Minister also stated that it had been incorrectly reported that no licenses were required for the importation of books and medicines. Licenses were required for all commercial products, but there were no restrictions on books and medicines. .