RUBBER POSITION
RESPONSIBILITY QUESTION Replying to a recent statement by the Auckland Burea.i of Importers that the rubber position was due to the refusal of Mr. Nash to grant import licenses in 1939-40, the Minister of Transport, the Hon. R. Semple, said in Greymouth that this was untrue. Every country was in the same position and to blame Mr. Nash for the shortage in New Zealand was as unfair as to blame him for the shortage in the whole British Empire. A cable just received from Canadp showed the position to be very serious there, and America had denied tyres to civilians for three years. If a scapegoat was needed, the bureau should blame the Malayan rubber kings, who refused to sell at the price offered before the Japanese invaders got the whole lot,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 5
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134RUBBER POSITION Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 5
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