SHORTAGE OF MATCHES
STAFF PROBLEM BLAMED OVERSEA EXPORTS DENIED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 3. “There is no lack of materials, and the position is simply due to a shortage of staff,” said Mr. W. McLay, managing director of Bryant and May, Bell and Co., Ltd., match manufacturers, in reply to an inquiry yesterday as to the reason for the existing shortage of matches. Suggestions that this was due to exports of matches from New Zealand to Australia were denied by Mr. McLay, and also by officials of the Customs Department and the Industries and Commerce Department. Mr. McLay said that over the past six or nine months the staff position had become worse, though there was at present a little evidence that it was going to improve. His firm distributed supplies in accordance with the quota that had been worked on for the last four years. If staff were obtainable, •it should be possible to meet the local demand under the present conditions. The interval between supplies going forward was a little longer. _______
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22011, 3 May 1946, Page 2
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