SALE OF AMMUNITION.
DEFENCE DEPARTMENT XOTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Defence Department proposes to sell a Large quantity of .303 blank ammunition, considered by experts as a result of tests 'to be unserviceable. "Although great care is exercised to maintain up to serviceable standard ammunition in magazines," remarked the Minister of Defence, the Hon. J. (J. Cobbe, to-day, "deterioration occurs in some of it. It is due to rigid tests made from time to time that some three and one-third million rounds of .303 blank ammunition is to be sold for the value of the metals in it." The ammunition must be broken up prior to removal.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 198, 22 August 1935, Page 17
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