IMPORT LICENCES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 8

IMPORT LICENCES

SECOND PERIOD OF YEAR SOME RESTRICUONS NOW DROPPED [ Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 14. Applications for licences to import certain classes of seasonal goods for the second period of the year are now being considered by the Customs Department in Auckland. A few licences for the second period have actually been issued. Throughout the past few weeks the department has been maintaining th? rate of issue of licences for the first six months of the year and to-day the total number of licences issued reached 16,425. A few hundreds of applications for the first period remain to be dealt with and although applications are still coming in, the end of an accumulation is in sight. Some of the restrictions which have been imposed on certains classes of goods under the import licensing regulations have new been relaxed and apply to tne first six months period of the year. Cuts had been n ; de on the importation of books of foreign origin and -hese have now been withdrawn but. publication vLi ch give prominence to sex, obscenity, horror, terror, cruelty or crime are still subject to restrictions. In the latter category are many types of pulp magazines. English books are dill admitted without subjection to the predetermined cut. The reduc-t'-n that applied to assembled motorcycles has been dropped. The withdrawal of cuts also applies to armour plate or toughened glass that is chiefly used for motor-vehicles.