WIRE FOR BALING HAY

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23537, 15 January 1942, Page 6

WIRE FOR BALING HAY

♦ GOVERNMENT PURCHASES DELAYED The delay in the arrival of stocks of hay baling wire purchased by the Government was referred to by the Director. of Primary Production (Mr R. B. Tennent) in a letter to the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, which was received by the executive of the North Canterbury branch at its meeting yesterday. Mr Tennent stated that orders had been placed for 1000 tons of wire for shipment in July and August, but owing 1o the steel situation in the United States at the time, portion of the first order was not ready until November and had not yet come to hand. Mr Tennent added that some firms were holding limited stocks carried over from 1940 or landed from Australia or Canada during the early months of last year. These would be supplemented later in the season by the arrivals of wire purchased by the Government. The executive agreed that it was too late in the season to do anything, and it was decided to ask the Director of Primary Production to keep the question of baling wire for next year in view.