HARDWARE IMPORTS
"We have ordered nothing since December 5, and we cannot order anything until we get an indication of what we can order," said the manager of a large firm of hardware importers. "I think that by next March there will be a,lot of unemployed on the streets. We have bought nothing from overseas for a month, and I am told that most of our branches are in the same position. That means a month's duty and sales tax lost to the Government, and a shortage of work for the watersiders and carriers.
"So far we have -had only one licence, in regard to pig iron from Broken Hill, Australia. This raw material is required by many New Zealand firms. In this case the licence covers only one-sixth of the value applied for. '
"Our position is this: We have to keep the quantity of goods to give us the required turnover, or,we will be unable to maintain the staff at its present numbers. What has happened in the case of pig iron seems likely to happen to other lines. We cannot help thinking that, it would have been better if the Government had left the whole thing to private enterprise. Any ideas we have had of expanding have been knocked on the head."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 10
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214HARDWARE IMPORTS Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 10
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