DOMINION NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 256, 26 September 1940, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS

MOTOR TRADE PROTEST,

IMPORT CONDITIONS. Per Press Association.

WELLINGTON,. Sept. 26. The Motor Trade Federation wish to make an emphatic protest against the treatment of their industry under the fifth period import licenses, according to the president (Mr C. R. Edmond), who iii a statement to-day says the restrictions will lead to the closing down of assembly plants and will probably mean that the trade will be unable to pay its contribution to the war purposes loan. There was a slight easing regarding spare ..parts and tyres, but the trade considered there should be no restriction, as wheu no new vehicles were coming it was necessary that spare parts should be available to keep up the old ones The main iss ie, he said, was the total prohibition of the importation of cars tor the whole of 1941, which would lead to the dosing down of assembly plants and the dismissal of many workers. The importation of commercial vehicles would not provide much assembly work. He emphasised that these restrictions had been placed on the industry at a time when British manufacturers were appealing for.orders to keep up British trade.

Referring to the war purposes loan, Mr Edmond said the year ,on which contributions were to be computed had been a good one in the motor industry, but seeing that no import licenses were granted in the latter half of 1940, and there would now be none for 1941, he did not see liow the industry was going to pay its share of the compulsory loan. FLOCK HOUSE FUND. '

1 The annual meeting of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund was "held to-day. The managing-trustee (Mr J\ R. Lees) said there had been an accretion of £.108,243 in the lunds and it had been decided to allocate £20,000 of the present funds to work in connection with the' present war. It might be possible to double the-al-location after all claims from the previous war had been met. Requests had been sent out to all the contributors, and 230 approvals had been received, showing that probably the consent would be unanimous. Later on it might be necessary to -contribute especially to a fund for survivors of the present war. The approval of the National Patriotic Fund Board would be necessary. Mr'Edward Newman, C.M.G., was re-elected chairman. MINE RENDERED IDLE.

GREYMOUTH, Sept, 26

The Liverpool mine was idle today owing to a dispute in connection with the issue of pay tickets. It is customary to have the tickets issued oil the morning before pay day (tomorrow), but this morning the tickets were not available for the truckers and wages men owing to pressure of work at the mines office. The men held a stop-work meeting and decided to go home.