BRITAIN WANTS MORE ORDERS

Southland Times, Issue 24229, 12 September 1940, Page 8

BRITAIN WANTS MORE ORDERS

REASONABLE IMPORTS

URGED

MANUFACTURERS MAKE APPEAL

(Special to The Times) AUCKLAND, September 11. The anxiety of British manufacturers of crockery and earthenware to secure additional orders from New Zealand to offset the restrictions on trade in the home market and to maintain export quotas is revealed in cablegrams received yesterday in Auckland by Mr A. L. Byrne, New Zealand representative of several such factories in England. The messages stated that every available overseas order was necessary am' important to keep the factories functioning. Mr Byrne said most of the table crockery sold in the Dominion came from Stoke-on-Trent. The New Zealand warehouses with which business was done had all used their licences and were awaiting the Government’s decision in regard to the fifth period. He expressed the view that the Government should assist British industries as far as possible by allowing reasonable imports, especially from manufacturers who had been restricted in trade on local markets at Home. Only 50 per cent, of the 1938 imports of table crockery Lad been allowed under the imports licensing scheme. The importation of ornamental crockery was not permitted. Mr Byrn said he had heard of instances where crockery was required but was unobtainable. Recent correspondence received from British firms stated that the British Government was urging them to secure all the overseas trade possible.