EXPORT OF WOOL TO FRANCE
THREAT OF BOYCOTT RAISED MODIFICATION OF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS URGED (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) , , WELLINGTON, June 28. An appeal was made to the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) in the House this afternoon for some modification of the import restrictions to permit the sale of New Zealand wool to France to continue.
The Hon. J. G. Cobbe (Nat., Manawatu) asked the Prime Minister if he had considered the recent statement of the French Consul that France bought some £1,500,000 to £2,000,000 worth of New Zealand wool, and, whether .in view of that statement, together with the threat of a boycott by French wool buyers, was the Government prepared to modify the restrictions on the pre-, sent small amount of French goods imported. The speaker mentioned the disastrous results a boycott would have on the export of New Zealand wool. The acting Leader of the House (the Hon. P. Fraser) said that the question involved policy and consequently he requested Mr Cobbe to place it on the order paper for future consideration. This course was agreed to.
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Southland Times, Issue 23856, 29 June 1939, Page 5
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