SHINGLE COSTS
Council Claim Disputed The chairman of the Christchurch Shingle and Metal Supply Association (Mr W. H. K. Boon) said the he did not believe that the Christchurch City Council could quarry and crush metal at half the cost, at which private companies could produce metal dug from shingle pits and crushed. Mr Boon was commenting on a recent report that metal was produced at the council’s Halswell quarries at about half the cost of metal obtained from private suppliers. “Few people would believe that the council's quarrying operations were so much more efficient than those of experienced private enterprise, even allowing that the council operated on a non-profit-making basis,” Mr Boon said. “The claim is so extraordinary that the council must be comparing its ex-pit production costs with the delivered price of metal obtained from private sources,” he said. Mr Boon said that cartage involved a substantial difference between ex-pit and delivered prices, and this factor would also apply to the Halswell quarries.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31178, 30 September 1966, Page 10
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