IMPORT CONTROL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 14 April 1939, Page 10

IMPORT CONTROL

MORE FLEXIBLE SCHEME WANTED INJURY TO TRADE CHRISTCHURCH, 13th April, i Asking whether the Associated Chamj bers of Commerce was still watching ! the import regulations situation, Mr ! V. E. Hamilton said to-night at a meet- ■ ing of the Canterbury chamber that | the position required attention. He * claimed that trade in the Dominion ; was being slowly poisoned and that the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, should j be asked for a more tlexible scheme. He j suggested that the chamber should i urge on the associated chambers the ! need of pressing for a modification of the regulations. “I do not think the position should be accepted as inevitable,” said Mr Hamilton. “Everywhere you go you find that businesses are suffering. People have licenses for goods they j really do not want but cannot secure licenses for articles they do want The inflexibility of the regulations is beyoud bearing. We should have a scheme which would not throttle industry and trade as the present regulations are doing. Thousands of pounds are being spent in importing unwanted goods under present conditions. It is going to mean that employees will have to be put off."