ROOFING IRON.
COMPARISON OF PRICES MINISTER’S STATEMENT REFUTED. (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. . The statement made' in the House of Representatives on Thursday night by Mr W. Nash that the price of roofing iron was £36 a ton to-day, as against £7B a ton in 1917, has been refuted by Mr W. L. King (president of the New Zealand Galvanised Sheet Iron Guild). Mr King, said to-day that the statement was somewhat misleading. The minimum soiling price to builders of 26 gauge corrugated iron, as fixed by the Price Investigation Tribunal on January 1, 1941,' was £55 8s 3d, -jess 2.) per cent, on monthly accounts, for two hundredweight bundles, with extra charges for loose sheets. This price said Mr King, w r as increased in other centres by extra landing charges and railway carriage to inland towfis.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 249, 2 August 1941, Page 4
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