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BRITISH MOTOR TYRES ONLY 10 PER CENT. OF 1948 ALLOCATION Special Correspondent WELLINGTON, Apl. 15. The import of motor tyres from Britain is virtually ended. Under a Customs direction issued this week. Licences for 1949 are to be issued to the extent of 10 per cent, only of the 1948 licences, says the direction, and attached to it is a schedule giving tyres that may not be imported.
These tyres, it is stated, are all popular sizes, and, while it is not yet aefinite that popular sizes may not be imported within the 10 per cent, allocation, the assumption is that the 10 per cent, of imports will be confined solely to out-sizes and special sizes.
“ This amounts to an embargo on the imporation of tyres from Great Britain,” said an importer. “The tyres on the protected list are all manufactured in New Zealand, and with the very small proportion of special tyres that are required, our imports will recede almost to vanishing point.” It was learned from another'source that the question of importing popular sizes under the 10 per cent, quota is still receiving official consideration.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 6
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