CONTRACT COSTS
NEW ZEALAND ORDERS CANADIAN LIABILITY OTTAWA, Jan. 4. An Ordcr-in-Council published today disclosed that Canada has assumed’ the financial obligation for all munitions contracts held by New Zealand in Canada as at July 1, 1944. and subsequently. The cost is estimated not to exceed 1,900,000 dollars. The expenditure will come under the mutual-aid programme. The Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, commenting in Wellington to-day on the Ottawa cable message regarding munition contracts in Canada, said that while he had no official advice about any Ordcr-in-Council, the announcement was probably associated with the mutual-aid agreement between New Zealand and Canada reached in Ottawa at the end of June last. To the extent that the supplies referred to were munitions of war they automatically qualified for mutual‘aid in accord with the agreement for each country 1;o utilise it's own resources to the maximum in the war effort. —P.A.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21605, 6 January 1945, Page 4
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