Object To Prices Of Used Barbed Wire

Northern Advocate, 1 October 1943, Page 4

Object To Prices Of Used Barbed Wire

(Special) AUCKLAND. This Day. Auckland merchants who have been unable to obtain barbed wire are complaining that the Government is insisting on payment of the price of new wire for old stocks which have been lying out in the open at Dargaville. Whangarei, Rotorua and elsewhere. A representative of one firm stated that the Government had a large amount of new barbed wire but would not sell it until the old wire, much of which was rusty, had been bought at full price. Stating that a fixed price to wholesalers of new barbed wire was £ 47/10 1 a ton, he said that his firm considered that old rusty used wire was not worth more than £37/10/ and, even at that price it might not be satisfactory as it had been out in the open so long and might break. If it were bought at a reduced price the Government could fix a correspondingly lower price to be charged by retailers.