STORES CONTROL BOARD.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 7

STORES CONTROL BOARD.

. The first annual report of the Stores Control Board^set up last year by the Government to control and supervise the purchase and disposal of stores required by all State Departments, states that the benefits of the new system have now secured general recognition, and that practically all stores are now purchased through -the Supplies and Tenders Committees, with the result that considerable savings have been effected. The new system came into operation about the end of July, 1922, and over 6000 requisitions have "been dealt with by the Supplies and Tenders Committee during the eight months ended 31st March, 1923, while over two hundred contracts have been arranged for supplies of clothing, bread, milk, meat, etc., for the various institutions under the direct control of Government Departments. " It is recognised," states the report, " that the work of the board is in reality only beginning. The largest savings can and will be effected by the standardisation of stores which are used by all Departments. This is now receiving earnest attention, and it is hoped that ere long a number of stores commonly used by a number of or all Departments will have been standardised, and contracts made for supplies, which will result in the saving of many thousands of pounds to the Government."-