Relaxing Import Restrictions

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 4

Relaxing Import Restrictions

FOR CERTAIN CLASSES OF GOODS Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Applications for licenses to import certain classes of seasonal goods for tho second period of tho year are now being considered by tho Customs Department iii Auckland. A 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-day the total licenses issued reached 1(5,425. A few hundred of the applications for the first period remain to be dealt with and although 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 Cuts had been made on the importation of books of foreign origin and these have now been withdrawn, but publications which give prominence to sex obscenity, horror, terror, cruelty or crime are still subject to restriction. In the latter category are many types of “pulp” magazines. English books are still admitted without subjection to the predetermined cut.

The reduction that applied to assembled motor-cycles has been dropped and the withdrawal of cuts also applies to armour-plate or toughened glass that is chiefly used for motor-vehicles.