CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16758, 7 June 1920, Page 2

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT.

MAINTAINS UNREASONABLE CHARGES.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 7. Replying to an Auckland importer the Comptroller of Customs writes: “It would appear that the purchasing of goods in France, Italy or other countries having ia depreciated currency, however much it may detrimentally affect manufacturers there, is not to the disadvantage of importers from those countries. It is regretted- that instructions which have been issued with respect to the conversion at current hank rates of exchange of invoices made out in English currency for goods imported from France or Italy, and their reconversion at the mintage par rate of exchange, cannot bo withdrawn.”