IMPORT REGULATION APPROVED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 7 December 1938, Page 3

IMPORT REGULATION APPROVED

!\I ANI! AC T IRIKS' CO MMI N I "It has always been the opinion of, the New Zealand Manufacturer.-’ Federation that there should be a definite policy of regulating the importation ol . any goods from overseas which can be effectively made in New Zealand." statu 1 1 a comment on the regulation? dealing, with the control of imports and exports Which was made on behalf of the federation last night. "It is for the Government to decide upon the method by which this shall be done, and for the manufacturing industries to eo- i operate to the fullest extent. We note that importation is prohibited except pursuant either to license j or to an exemption granted by the Minister. We are gratified to observe that the Minister in his statement makes ini portant reference to capital equipment and raw materials lor the extension of manufacturing in the Dominion. Accordingly. we presume that materials and plant required by the manufacturing industries in Zealand, provided they are not available in the Dominion. will not merely be given a preference as to license, but v. i)l be granted exemption under the regulations, so as to allow the greatest possible expan-. sicn of production in New Zealand lor the utmost employment of New Zea- 1 landers and the general wellbeing of the country "We feel that the work of the Minis- j ter of Industries and Commerce, Mr* Sullivan, for the fostering of the manufacturing industries will now, at last.' achieve success, and the result will be a proper distribution of the productive | efforts of the Dominion oyer the whole; field of boll) primary and manufacturing production.'’