Unlicensed Goods Cannot Be Lifted

Northern Advocate, 25 May 1939, Page 2

Unlicensed Goods Cannot Be Lifted

IMPORT DECREES

The Customs Department in Auckland is refusing to allow importers to take delivery of goods from the wharves without licenses.

Importers ai*c to meet to-morrow to consider possible courses of action, and also the implications of the Supreme Court judgment. The Collector of Customs said to-day that the position, from a, Departmental viewpoint, was unchanged. He said the judgment was sub judice, and the issuing ofTicenses was being continued.

The importers are obtaining legal advice regarding importing rights. It is understood that some Auckland importers are considering making claims in the Magistrate’s Court for the delivery of goods held by the Customs Department. It is also suggested that orders may be given for goods to be supplied from Australia, where payment can be arranged without recourse to the funds of the Reserve Bank. World-Wide Interest.

"We have been inundated with congratulatory letters, telegrams and cables." said Mr Gainor Jackson, director of F. E. Jackson and Co., this morning. Mr Jackson, whose firm was successful in the recent action testing the validity of the import restrictions, said cables had been received from New York. Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto. Leeds, Birmingham and Paris, and many other cities, expressing satisfaction of overseas manufacturers upon learning the result of the Supreme Court action.

Mr Jackson said that the case had aroused world-wide interest, and a summary of the judgment had been broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation on Monday evening.