SCHEDULE REVISED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1942, Page 6

SCHEDULE REVISED

IMPORTATION OF GOODS. INCREASED ALLOCATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A modification of the import licensing schedule is announced in last night’s Gazette. The new revision grants increased allocations based in the main on 25 per cent for some 240 items. An increase of 100 per cent has been granted in respect of certain types of women's stockings. Fifty per cent increases have been granted in 35 items, including infants’ and invalids’ foods, sago, tapioca, gloves, mittens, children’s socks, and stockings, women’s stockings other than cotton, silk and artificial silk; cutlery, photographic goods, bolts and nuts, typewriters, electric machines or appliances, gas heating and cooking appliances except gas ranges, safety razor blades, fishing nets and certain earthenware. Twenty-five per cent increases in the same section cover 31 items, and include babies’ clothing, carpets, floor coverings, hairpins, safe-ty-pins, etc., certain knitted piece goods, woollen, moquet and tapestry, certain sporting and athletic requisites, tobacco pipes, electric lamp bulbs (where not made locally), clothes wringers and bicycles.