Import Licenses For Motor Cycles

Chronicle (Levin), 17 April 1948, Page 2

Import Licenses For Motor Cycles

WFGLJXGTUX, Apri] 16. - "It u|>p>;u-s tliat tlie H.S.A. (Joiiipanv 'is uiider a . mJsupprcluMisioit in. leganl to i ' l iie nllocal ion l'ori ini|>oil9 oi' motor.' ■ cyi'les I roin tio' t ixited Kingdoni dnciiig 1 j 19-IS, " said ttic .MiuisL-r of ('ustonisj ■ (II f >11. Waitui' Nasli) today. 1 1 c was ■ roplvi ng to a calde I'min 'l 1m X.Z.I'.A sjiccial corrospoiHk-iit on t Iie (piestioii of motor cycle import, s into f lijlJomiiiion. "Tlio sclicdiiled allocat ion, ' isaid Mr. Xasli, "is 100 p(»r *c n I . oi' tio J 19-1(5 lu'cm'os. The origiual lOKi alloea ition was .70 por cent. of l!l.">8, hut thi: 'was later iiicreascd to 100 per cent. of the lOoS iigure. The position is, there, lore, that the 10 18 li.eeiiees for imporls of motor eveles Irom Ihe L'nited Kingdoni arc being grimtod as the basie -illoeation to the. cxteni of the applieanls iinports of similar goods from that sowree in 10.".8 and not 70 per eout. oi I .sueli imports as qnoted in the Gable. I "Xow Zealand dist ribiitors of li.S.A motor cycles were originally grante.d a( 1918 lieence for an amonnt eipiivalen! i to the \alne of their 1!):>8 imports ol'l sueli maeliines. • Snbseijiient I v thev v. ei—' granted an addilional lieence for a j considera ble amonnt beenuse of t h i speeial cireumstances which exislcd ii, j their case, the result being that flies-" arc in possession of 10-18 liceii'-cs whicli i exc.eed eousiderablv llie valne of Ih-n'j 1978 imports of motor eyeles. (!on j lirinntion of this could easily be oblaia ed. by the ILH.A. Compafiy froin their Xew Zealand dist ribiitors. ''If is t rtic that the Kiiglisli coinpany was in eoiiiiminiealion with my ofliee during my abseiice in llavaii'a with a recjuest that a fiirther lieence b ■ granted I'or import., s of their produel iu 1918, but m view of the provision whiclr had alrcady been made through their represenl atives and through oi her regular imporfcrs for imports of these in ae hines during 19-18 their reijuest for an addilional lieence could not be ae eeded to. 1 would add," cojjeluded Alr. N"ash, "that.,. our iniporls of motor eyeles from the Pnited Kingdoni bi 19.78 auiouiited to £89, 090. Liccnccs fo. ainoiuits in excess of that (igure hace bein granted in eaeh of the Llueo veaiW 191(1, 1917 and 1918."