HOTLY CRITICISED.
A WAR OFFICE APPOINTMENT. LONDON, February 26. In the House of Commons the Government's appointment of Montajruc Meyer as sole timber buyer ior the War Office j was hotly criticised. Meyer . receives 2A per cent on the value of his purchases, and his commissions already amount to f 15.000. Members stated that other timber firms had offered to undertake the purchases at a lesser remuneration. Several denounced the appointment as a terrible scandal. Mr A. C. T. Book Secretary to the War Office), in reply, declared that the country was saving money by employing- Meyer. The matter then dropped.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 5
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