IMPORT POLICY

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 11

IMPORT POLICY

New Zealand Ministers’

Comments The references to restrictions on Empire trade by the President of the Board of Trade, Captain Oliver Lyttelton, trud bv Jxird Stamp, a member of the Economic Advisory Council, were discussed by the Prime Minister. Mr. Fraser, in an interview last night. “The remarks of Ford Stamp and Captain Lyttelton,” lie said, “completely support the attitude of tlie New Zealand Government in regirrd to nou-essen-tial imports, and wholly’ corroborate Mr Nash’s contentious as to the viewpoint and policy of the United J<kigdom Government. Seldom has it been the lot of any man in public and political life to have his line of argument and arguments substantiated to such a degree. He is proved to l>e 100 per cent, right.” . "This is the outcome ol discussions that have been taking place for some time," said the Minister of Customs, Mr. Nash, when the cabled message was referred to him. “Obviously it appears unfair to stig•'est that tlie iieoplo of the Lnltul Kingdom should be deprived of some of the jnanufneturos ot the Kingdom in older to make them nviulable to people in other parts ol the Empire and Commonwealth, said .in. Nash. “The United Kingdom Government lias now approved tlie prlnelp’.e ot treating the Empire and the ( wealth as :r unit, and wo all should I < willing to go without nou-essenthit goods so that tlie war ellovt can n< developed io its imixtmum. 'Phe Minister lidded tlml tins "oiili not in any wny |>rev<‘iil I'ssenlial coh moditios from living otitalm'd f United Kingdom 'if possible, or. iIBH .• tlml, wherever they were :n.‘illnble