GOODS FOR NEW ZEALAND

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 257, 28 September 1945, Page 5

GOODS FOR NEW ZEALAND

LABOUR MAIN FACTOR. (Special Correspondent.) (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 27. Until the labour situation improves in Britain it is not thought that there will he much increase in the amount of goods available to meet orders from New Zealand, even with the recent relaxation of certain export license controls. This is the opinion of Mr D. V. Tomson, the chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Merchant Shippers' Association. Mr Tomson said: ''The issue of the list of goods now exempt from export license certainly is a step in the right direction. While the list only containh in the main goods for which licenses have already been granted fairlj freely, it certainly relieves exporterof a good deal of unnecessary work and enables them to devote more oi their time to productive purposes. "There are, however, many good.s for which licenses are still required —licenses which are difficult to oh tain —and these, of course, are lines in short supply, not only here, but throughout. the world, and are consequently those most needed. Taking the broad view, therefore, I think the new list will not result in any particular increase in exportation. That can onlj come about when the labour situation improves."