IMPORT PROBLEMS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 14

IMPORT PROBLEMS

MR. NASH EXPLAINS TALK TO DAIRY BOARD LESS GOODS PRODUCED DIFFICULTY IN WAR (P«r Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A warning that people generally could not be as well off during the war as before it. was issued by the Minister of Finance and Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, in an address to the conference of the Dairy Board yesterday. “Irrespective of sterling funds, and they will affect the position if this war continues, it will be impossible to get the same quantities of goods as before, so we will all have to have less," Mr. Nash said. "We cannot have products that are not there and which it is impossible to get. "It is impossible, no matter how clever anyone may be, to distribute more products than are produced, and it is not possible under the existing circumstances to get the same volume of products that we had before September 1.

• “We have stated .that the United Kingdom can have all of cm products it wants, even if we can get belter prices in other countries. We have sold our products at a givenprice that prevents the prices rising for the period of the contract, but the price we will pay for products will go up in a much greater degree than the price we have received for our products. That is the sacrifice we have to make.”