RELAXING IMPORT RESTRICTIONS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14068, 15 February 1939, Page 5

RELAXING IMPORT RESTRICTIONS

FOR CERTAIN CLASSES OF GOODS. Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND. Last Night. Applications for licenses to import. certain classes or seasonal goods for the second period of the year are now being considered by the Customs Department in Auckland. A few licenses for the second period have actually been issued. Throughout the past few weeks the department has been maintaining the rate of issue of licenses for the first »ix months of the year and to-day tb»* total licenses issued reached U A few hundred of the applications for the first period remain to be dealt with and alt-bought applications art* still coming in, the end of the accumulation is in sight. Some of the restrictions imposed import licensing regulations have now been relaxed and will apply to the first six-months period of the. year. Cuts had been made on the importation of hooks ot foreign origin and these have now been withdrawn, blit publications which give prominence to sex obscenity, horror, terror, cruelty or crime are -•still subject to restriction. In the latter category are many types of "pulp” magazines. English books are still admitted without subjection to the pre-determined cut. The reduction that applied to assembled motorcycles lias been dropped and the of cuts toughened glass that is i hiefly used, for motor-vehicles.