MUNITIONS FACTORIES
GOVERNMENT SELLING ITS PLANT.
'(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
(Received March 8, 10.30' a.m.)
LONDON, 6th March.
The first National Munition factory sold, cost £133,000, and the Government received £140,000.
Mr. Kelleway (Parliamentary Secretary to the Munitions Department), in announcing the fact in the House of Commons, added that the Government did not intend to go in for private trading, as it knew the business men would beat it every time.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 56, 8 March 1919, Page 5
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