FOOD FOR DEFENCE DEPARTMENT

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 125, 20 February 1941, Page 12

FOOD FOR DEFENCE DEPARTMENT

Question About Prices

Dominion Special Service.

HASTINGS. February 19

An inquiry as to whether the military authorities are buying produce from the Internal Marketing Division ut wholesale rates io to be made by the Hastings Chamber of Commerce, which expressed the opinion at its monthly meeting that if this is r.ot being done steps should be taken by the Government to see that it Mr. 11. Baird said that if the Marketing Division were felling to the .military authorities, at retail prices a profit would be created at the expense of the Defence Department. All produce supplied to the camps, he considered, should be at current wholesale rates. He brought the subject forward as it involved efficiency and the keeping dowu of costs as a war measure.

The Gisborne Chamber of Commerce sought the meeting's support for a move to alter the railear service between \\ ellington and M’airoa, the suggestion being that instead of going down on Saturdays the railcnr should leave W airoa at 4.1p.m. on Sundays, arriving at Wellington at 11.35 p.nii, and leave the capital at 4.12 p.m. on Tuisdays instead 01. Sundays, as at present. Members were sympathetic to the suggestion, but it was decided to suggest tliat the present time was inopportune for pressing for such a revision.