£14,150,290 Spent On Stores Last Year
[Special to "Northern Advocate”] WELLINGTON, This Day. According to the annual report of the Stores Control Board, which was presented to Parliament yesterday, expenditure on stores for the year ended March 31 totalled £14,150,200, against £10,418.000 a year earlier. The stores expenditure of the three service departments rose by £4,535,400, and that of all other departments declined by £803,300. “The amounts shown for the Navy, Army and Air Departments include stores purchased bv the Defence Purchase Division, which for the year amounted to £4,190,200.” the report adds. “Since the commencement of the war to March 31 this year, 42,418 orders of a fetal value of £4,899,000 have been placed by the division on behalf of the three services. This includes purchases from local manufacturers and merchants’ stocks in the Dominion, as well as stores indented through local merchants, but does not include those indented direct by the services from overseas sources.”
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Northern Advocate, 8 October 1941, Page 7
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