IMPORT CONTROL
RELAXATION URGED ["BT TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Tuesday The opinion that the import regulations should have been relaxed at the outset of the war and importers allowed to use their own discretion as to what goods they brought into the country was expressed by Mr. G. H. Guthrie in his presidential remarks at tho annual meeting of the New Zealand Importers' Federation. Mr. Guthrie said importers could reasonably have been allowed a certain amount of latitude, as the majority, having had experience of trade during the Great War. were well aware of the class of goods they were likely to have difficulty in obtaining. "When manpower is so reduced for the defence forces, both overseas and in New Zealand, why persist in forcing the issue in regard to secondary industries, particularly when they are definitely uneconomic?" Mr. Guthrie asked. Where an industry was wortu while, as so many of them were, it should be supported wholeheartedly, but not to the extent of a total prohibition of overseas trade.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24132, 26 November 1941, Page 8
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170IMPORT CONTROL New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24132, 26 November 1941, Page 8
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