"OUTRAGEOUS COSTS"
PRICES FOR AMMUNITION.
"Our ammunition costs are outrageous," declared the president of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, Mr W. J. Poison, M.P., at a meeting of the Dominion executive of the union at Wellington (says the "Dominion"). Mr Poison's remark followed the reading of a Ministerial reply to a letter from the union stating that the authorities had been assured that the cost of manufacture precluded any reduction in ammunition prices.
Mr Poison said the union should again write to the Government pointing out that it was utterly dissatisfied with the reply, and did not agree with the statement that prices could not be reduced. "In the interests of sportsmen and others," he said, "we should insist that something be done to bring about a reduction, even if we have to keep hammering away at it, and this is a good year for that."
The suggestion Was adopted.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVI, Issue 41, 24 May 1935, Page 7
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