Board to beat price rise
The Christchurch DrainageBoard will buy as much pip-; ing as possible to beat a 10 per cent price increase ex-1 pected to be approved by the Trade and Industry Department in April. A meeting of the board’s finance committee decided to seek delivery of the large sections .of pipe as soon as possible and store them at the Bromley sewage-treat-
tjment works until they are . ineeded. J The proposed order will '(cost about $231,000. half of Twhich will be paid before > April and the rest before - September, when prices are expected to rise again. > The manufacturer of the i pipe is at Auckland and the i committee was told that ; transport costs might also in- . crease if the board W'aited ■ with its purchases.
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Press, 25 January 1979, Page 12
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