CAMP MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENT.
NOT TO BE DISPOSED OF AT
PRESENT
(srEcr.vii to "the press.")
WELLINGTON, December 23. There have' bsen a lot of applications to the Defence Department for the purchase of building material, clothing, camp equipment, and goods of this scrt. The Minister of Defence said to-day that these applications were evidently based on the assumption that the camps ( and the buildings wero going to be dis- i posed of, and that tlio camps were go- j mg to be finally broken up. So far as the Defence Dep;xtment was concerned, there would be no sale of building material or of clothing, except of condemned wastage, for a considerable ' time to come, or at least until a future , policy with regard to Territorial re- j quirements and training had been de- I cided upon. . | "We are in the happy pes'tion," saiili : the Minister, "of having only such a surplus of clothing and equipment as we can easily absorb into the future requirements of the Forccs, without recourse to the wholesale disposal which . seems to hare taken p"a:e in other parts j of the Empire."
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16403, 24 December 1918, Page 6
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