Also Export Restrictions

Moresby Has Cars — Also Export Restrictions

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Moresby, Mar. 28.

PORT MORESBY must be one of the few towns—if not the only one—in the sterling area where an American car can be bought “off ihe hook”.

Most car importers took advantage of the last dollar allocation (which followed the Menzies loan) to order the best sedan cars and these are now arriving in sizable shipments?

Retailers, at first, had no difficulty in securing orders but then Customu announced that American cars coulo not be taken out of the territory within a year. Many people then; cancelled their orders but sorm claimed that the Customs Regulation could not stand up in a court oc law.

So the Administrator solved thu

problem by proclamation in thr

Gazette. Using his powers undes the Customs Ordinance, 1951, hu prohibited the export of any car.

This Ordinance gives the Adc ministrator power to prohibit thu export of goods where, in hii opinion, their exportation would br harmful to the territory.

The terms of the proclamation permit limited export “if the consent in writing of the Chief Collector oc Customs has first been obtained’”

This means, of course, that if yon wish to export a sterling car, OK> but if you wish to export an American car, nothing doing.

Which is fair enough; the retailen pulled a fast one in using dollan for cars instead of for essentiae equipment for developmental pun poses.