GOODS EMBARGO

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 99, 21 April 1933, Page 3

GOODS EMBARGO

In Regard To Russia DOMINION’S LIKELY ATTITUDE NO OFFICIAL REQUEST RECEIVED (Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The attitude of the New Zealand Government towards following the example of Great Britain and imposing an embargo on the importation of certain Russian goods was explained Dy the Prime Minister in a telephone conversation from his home at Cheviot this evening. Mr Forbes would not confirm the statement attributed to him in the message from Wellington that “the Government would take into immediate consideration the question of prohibiting imports of Russian goods into New Zealand.” The position was, he said, that Cabinet was unlikely to consider the situation at all unless and until it received official advice of the embargo imposed by the British Government. So far no official information had reached him; nor had there been any official request that New Zealand afiould take action in sympathy with the Home Government. The Prime Minister is returning to Wellington by ferry steamer on Saturday night. Whether Cabinet will meet as soon as Monday will depend upon the number of Ministers at Parliament House.

TIMBER IMPORT PROHIBITION EFFECT IN BRITAIN LONDON, Last Nig»t. The prohibition of imports of Russian timber may have an important bearing on the efforts of the Empire Timber Company to use Australian hardwood telegraph poles instead of foreign. The Postmaster-General has stated that hardwood would be uneconomical compared with creosoted Scots pine. The Press Association learns that only a small quantity of Scots pine is used, but last year 190,000 foreign fur poles were imported. BRITISH RESTRICTIONS BUTTER A BIG ITEM British Official Wireless Service RUGBY. April 19. The text of the proclamation under the Russi.vi Goods Import Prohibition Act declares that “on and after the 26th day of April, 1933 the importation into the United Kingdom of goods of classes or descriptions specified in the schedule hereto, grown, produced, or manufactured in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is prohibited. The schedule above referred to in eludes bu.'te”, wheat, Lai ley, oats and maize in grain, poultry, and game, cotton waste and . unbleached cotton, lintera, (?), petroleum oils, timber (hewn, sawn, planed, or dressed, including pitprops, pitwood, staves, and sleepers), and articles manufactured wholly or partly of wood and timber, namely, plywood, builders’ woodwork, including window frames, doors, gates, etc., and parts thereof. The proclamation affects about 80 per cent, of Russian imports into Britain. These last year totalled just under £20,000,000, or over 30 per cent, of Russia’s total exports to all countries. Britain’s exports to Russia were about £10,590,000. As -for the chief commodities on Which the embargo has been placed the following approximate figures show the value of imports from Russia last year:—Petroleum £2,200,000; raw cotton £390,000: butter, £1,235,000; grain, £1,605,000; timber £5,853,000.