92. Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewingasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what methods he has used to bring to the attention of the public that it is illegal to transmit money to Gibraltar and other sterling area places in order to buy extra food; and whether he will arrange for notices to be displayed in post offices to that effect, so that customers who have been solicited from overseas may be aware of the regulations before the General Post Office accept their postal orders and transmit the money.
§ Mr. JayIt is not illegal to send money to places in the sterling area provided that authorised banking channels, postal orders or money orders are used. A notice calling attention to this position is displayed in Post Offices. There is no bar to the purchase and imporation of a large range of goods, including many unrationed foodstuffs, which may now be imported under open general licence. A notice in post offices would not be a suitable medium for publicity as to the goods which require an import licence, but repeated warnings have been issued by the Board of Trade from time to time.
66WAs regards rationed foodstuffs from Gibraltar, I would refer the hon. Member to the written answer given by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Food on 22nd November last.