GOVERNMENT BUYING
DELAY IN PAYMENTS
CRITICISM OF ATTITUDE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. "During the past year or two, doubtless due to the shortage of funds, many Government Departments have been taking three, four, or even six months to settle .their accounts, and although they have forfeited any right to cash discounts they are still claiming them. This is not fair commercial practice," stated an Auckland business firm in a letter read at today's meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Harvey Turner thought they should ask the Government to adopt a uniform method regarding its buying and selling. When business firms bought grain from the Government a deposit was required before the order was supplied, but the position was entirely different when the Government was the buyer.
After some discussion the matter was referred to the executive for appropriate action.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19400314.2.97
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 12
Word Count
143GOVERNMENT BUYING Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 12
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in