MANY INACCURACIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1939, Page 6

MANY INACCURACIES

IMPORT LICENCE DETAILS FROM CHRISTCHURCH STATEMENT BY WELLINGTON OFFICIAL. INSTRUCTIONS CONFIDENTIAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. "The list is bristling with inaccuracies,” said the Collector of Customs at Wellington (Mr R. J. Gray) when he was asked to comment on a Christchurch message purporting to give particulars of the extent to which control is restricting the importation of various classes of goods. Mr Gray said he had no authority to state particularly where the list was al fault, but the use of the word "banned” in connection with certain goods was completely incorrect. Collectors of Customs at every port were working on the same set of confidential instructions laying down the policy 'to be pursued in dealing with applications for permits, and there was, therefore, no discrimination between various parts of the Dominion. If was apparent now, Mr Gray stated, that some weeks would elapse before the present first batch of applications could all be disposed of, because they , were still pouring in and many firms had not yet submitted their applications. This, no doubt, was due to some extent to the large amount of work entailed on the part of some firms in preparing the necessary forms,