TRADE WITH ENEMY
PROHIBITION DECLARED INVESTIGATION POWERS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Regulations dealing with cnemj nationals’ trade, issued by speeia' authority early this morning, were explained by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. G Sullivan. He said that the regulations had been issued pursuant to the Public Safety Conservation Act. 1932, and to a proclamation of emergency now in force under the Act, and aim at the control of all trading and business dealings with the enemy. They prohibit such trading, and make it an offence. The regulations provide the necessary power and authority to enable an investigation of trading transactions to be made, if there arc reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence under the regulations has been or is about to be committed by any person, firm or company. They also empower the Minister of Customs to prohibit the export of any goods if there is any reason to suspect that the consignee of any goods shipped or about to be shipped Reexport, to any olace not within the British Dominions or the mandated territories, or that any person for whom such goods are designed, is an enemy trader, or a person engaged in any business undertaking or communications injurious to the interests of His Majesty in respect to war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 6
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217TRADE WITH ENEMY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 6
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