Minister Answers Verbal Questions

Northern Advocate, 27 January 1939, Page 6

Minister Answers Verbal Questions

[Per ,Press Association. Copyflght.li WELLINGTON, This Day. In addition to answering the 33 prepared questions submitted to him at the importers conference yesterday, Mr. Nash answered a number of verbal questions. He was asked if he could give the conference any idea when importers might be able to apply for permits to import during the second six months of the year.

“Applications can now go in,” replied the Minister. “It is a case of their being dealt with.” He did not think it would be possible to deal with them for some little time but not ,a long time.

In thq case of essential goods, he suggested it might be within a week or IQ days. With regard to other goods it might take a month or more. Mr. W. A. Boucher, president of the Bureau of Importers, Auckland, said a large number of appeals had been submitted. He asked the Minister if he would tell the conference how the appeals were dealt with, by whom, and what delay there would be before they were answered. Mr. Nash said he thought that hundreds of appeals had been dealt with already. Where there was a possibility of a general principle being adopted there might be little delay. Where there was an individual case alcne, that dealt with one commodity, he would try to expedite consideration of it almost at once.