BUYING A TRUCK.
BRITISH Oft AMERICAN? Members of the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday were stressing the necessity of the Board, as a local body, setting a good example by buying British motor vehicles when they found they were too late; the motor-truck which was the cause of the discussion had already been bought. Three quotations had been received for truck chassis, and Mr A. T. Smith said that an exhaustive trial had proved an American product to be the most suitable. The test had been made regardless of the cost of the machines. Mr W. P. Spencer said he wanted the Council to buy a British-made truck, and wherever possible he thought that local bodies should buy British goods even if they had to pay a few pounds more for them. "It's quite time that local bodies looked into this thing and stopped this stampede of American goods into New Zealand," exclaimed Mr F. G. Norton. "Wait a minute," counselled the secretary, "you're going too fast. The truck has already been bought. The committee was given power to do that." This ended the argument.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19940, 29 May 1930, Page 15
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