SQUEALING BEFORE THEY ARE HURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 4, 6 January 1939, Page 8

SQUEALING BEFORE THEY ARE HURT

WANGANUI IMPORTER'S VIEW SAFE FOR FIRST THREE MONTHS 1 think that any reduction in staff before the first three months of the | year have passed is not justified, and if anybody is dismissed it will have been done to bring undue pressure to bear on the Government,” said a Wanganui retailer yesterday, when asked to comment, on the statement that reduction of staffs has been foreshadowed in Auckland. “If importers read their licences correctly (I got mine to-day) they would see that it permits all goods ordered prior io December 5 to enter the country, irrespective of what country they are being imported from,” he said. “No importer would leave it until the middle of December to order goods for the first three months of the year. 1 venture to say that every importer in New Zealand ordered goods in August, September and October which will carry him through for the first three months of this year. Those goods are now on the water, and they will arrive in New Zealand to cover the next Ijhree months. Orders being made now-, and for which licences are being obtained, will be for goods for April, May and June. Then, I grant you, some people may be hurt; but to squeal now about reducing staffs is all wrong. It is squealing before being hurt.” “I have not got a licence for all I applied for,” he added, “and did not expect it, but until the first three months of the year are over nobody can say with certainty what the effect will be.”