GUMBOOT CONTROL
SYSTEM MODIFIED
STATEMENT BY MR. NASH
P.A. WELLINGTON, this day. The acting-Minister of Supply,' Mr. Nash, stated to-day that it had been decided to modify the present form of control over the distribution of knee gumboots. . In future retailers will obtain bulk supplies and hold these pending receipt of permits from authorising offiders, when applicants will be able to obtain immediate fitting. In the case of applications from farmers, releases will in future be approved by the secretaries of primary production councils, dairy factory managers, or secretaries and local officers of the Agriculture Department. Local officers of the Department of Industries, and Commerce may now authorise releases for secondary industries. Thigh gumboots are still in short .supply,.: and,- the former restrictions will continue on these.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 304, 23 December 1944, Page 6
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