IMPORT CONTROL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1939, Page 9

IMPORT CONTROL

MR JUSTICE CALLAN’S JUDGMENT QUESTION OF APPEAL BEING CONSIDERED. ATTORNEY-GENERAL PROMISES EARLY DECISION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “The question is now receiving consideration and a decision will be reached soon,” said the Attorney-Gen-eral, Mr Mason, when asked last evening if there were to be an appeal by the Crown against the decision of Mr Justice Callan in the Import Regulations case. These regulations were held to be ultra vires by his Honour in a reserved judgment given in the Supreme Court on Monday.

Mr Mason said that in the meantime he would like to correct a false impression that’might have been created by a telegraphed report appearing in certain southern newspapers to the effect that the judgment was’ a final one and that therefore there was no appeal. It was quite true that the judgment -was a “final” one, but the word “final” had reference only to the time for appealing. For this purpose judgments were classified as interlocutary and final, the difference between them consisting in the period of time within which an appeal could be brought. When a judgment was “final” in this sense (,as it was in the present case) the party whose interest it was to appeal had. four months during which to decide whether or not he would proceed with an appeal.

PUMPS DELIVERED IN COMPLIANCE WITH COURT RULING. NO GENERAL RELEASE OF GOODS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 24. The delivery of a case of kerosene pumps, valued at £l4 4s, was made by the Customs Department in Auckland today to F. Jackson and Company in terms of the judgment obtained by the company in an action brought against the Collector of Customs in order to test the validity of the import regulations. Pending legal advice on the wider implications of the judgment, the department refuses to make any deliveries of goods to importers generally, unless licences have been obtained and are produced. The position was tested by a number of importing firms. They were refused delivery without licences. STERLING FUNDS CONSIDERATION OF AUCKLAND SCHEME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

A statement that the Government would be glad to consider any alternative proposals which would safeguard London funds and otherwise implement government policy was made by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, in a reply he sent yesterday to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, which had asked him for the opportunity to submit a scheme for dealing with the depletion of sterling funds.