ENEMY GOODS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2892, 3 October 1916, Page 6

ENEMY GOODS

« NO MOBB MAY BE SOU). ' It was recently announced in the'stirs* papers that tie Commonwealth had pwx hibited the 6ale from wholesale housed of enemy goods after tho end .of Sjav' tember, and from retail shbjs after ths ond of November. "What has beon dono in New Zealand?" oskod a- reporter of the Hon. : Arthur M. Myers, Minister of Customs, "to prevent tho possiblo influx from Australia of tho goods referred to in tho above-mentioned announcement?" . "Immediately notification of tho action proposed to bo taken in Australia was. received," Mr. Myers stated, "circular instructions were issued to Collectors of Customs at all ports throughout the Dominion concerning tho possibility of such! enemy goods arriving from Australia on account of tho prohibition of sale there, and in consequenco a most strict and ful watoh was kept by tho Customs officials to'detect any attempt at landing euoh goods in Now Zealand. Hitherto it lias been possiblo to import German or Austrian goods -which reached British; possessions before the outbreak of war, but it has now been decided to prohibit snoh goods from any source whatsoever, whether British or otherwise, and to this end an Order-in-Conncil has boon prepared, and published b.v means'of Gazette Extraordinary, dated September 26, 1916, winch provides for tho prohibition or importation into Now Zealand of any poods vrhioh, whether ljeforo or after tho commencement ,<xf tho present.-war. havo been manufactured or produced in or exported from any place which at tho <Jatc of the Order-in-Council • wa3 enemy territory. • ' .* "This." concluded Mr. Myers, "will effectually prevent Australian houses disposing in Now Zealand of* any Btockfl of. enemy which thoy may bo holding."