WAR TRADE DEPARTMENT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 3

WAR TRADE DEPARTMENT

ESTABLISHED BY IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT. A copy of an Imperial Government notice affecting export and import licenses, which is of considerable interest to New Zealand merchants, was supplied to a reporter yesterday by Mr W. G. Wickham, H.M. Trade Commis* sioner for New Zealand. The notice is as under: — "The Treasury announce that, in view of the complexity and volume of work involved in dealing with applications for export and import licenses during the war, a Department under the Treasury (to be called the War Trade Department) has been formed to replace tie Committee of Trade with the Enemy so far as this work is concerned. At the request of the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Lord Emmott, G.C.M.G., has consented to act as director of this Department, and Sir Nathaniel Highmore, K.C.8., will be the secretary. t "The War Trade Department will deal with all applications for the grant of export and import licenses, and will em. brace an Intelligence Division which will serve as a clearing house for all war commercial information. The remainder 'of the work of the Trading with the Enemy Committee (relating to the movements of funds and other questions in which the Treasury is mainly concerned, will be transferred to the Treasury, and will be performed by Sir Arthur Thring, K.C.8., the Parliamentary Counsel, and his staff. "Exporters and others concerned are informed that in future all applications for licenses to export prohibited and restricted goods, and all communications ill respect thereof which have hitherto been sent to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, should be sent to the Secretary, War Trade Department, i Central Buildings, Westminster, London, S.W.

''The Privy Council Office notifies that the Privy Council Export License Department will be removed to the offices of the War Trade Committee, where it will act aB the section for the issuing of export licenses in connection with the new_ War Trade Department. All communications relating to export licenses which have hitherto been sent to the Licensing Department at Kingsway, or to the Privy Council Office, Whitehall,- should be sent to the Secretary, War Trade Department, at the address mentioned above."