"EXPENSIVE."
SALES TAX AND EXCHANGE. £19 IN LONDON; £43 IN N.Z. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The effect of the eales tax and high exchange on imported ho6pital requirements was referred to at a rneeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board to-day. The chairman, Mr. H. J. Otley, said the board bought goods valued at £19 in London, but by the time they were landed in New Zealand the price had reached £43. This was going to prove an expensive matter.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 98, 28 April 1933, Page 8
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