FIBROUS PLASTER

Evening Star, Issue 25956, 22 November 1946, Page 11

FIBROUS PLASTER

DISTRIBUTION QUESTIONED SOUTH ISLAND SUFFERS “Since April no plaster board 1 has come to the South Island, and the allocation of fibrous plaster to the North Island totals 1,650 tons, compared with the South Island’s quota of 201 tons,” said Mr E. C. S. Falconer, who presided at Mr T. K. S. Sidey’s meeting at the Kaikorai School Hall last night. Mr Falconer said that although it was unusual for a chairman of a political meeting to ask a question of a candidate, lie would like to discuss the plaster situation and hear Mr Sidey’s opinion on the subject. Plaster was imported into the country and allocated by the Building Controller in Wellington. The fibrous plaster and plaster board were manufactured in Auckland, and of the total importation of the raw material the North Island received 650 tons and the South Island 201 tons. The entire quota of 750 tons of plaster board went to the North Island. Mr Falconer asked Mr Sidey if. when lie was elected, lie would use his influence to adjust the position. “ It is another instance of what the four Labour members have done for Dunedin,” Mr Sidey replied. There was no reason why the South Island should not have a larger allocation of all these things.