PRODUCE FOR CAMPS
‘•SHOULD BE AT WHOLESALE RATES’* [United Press Association! HASTINGS, 19th February. On inquiry as to whether the milii tary authorities are buying produce from the Internal Marketing Division i at wholesale rates is to be made by the Hastings Chamber of Commerce, which ' expressed the opinion at its monthly meeting that if this is not being done ; steps should be taken by the Governj ment to see that if is.
Mr H. Baird said that if the Marketing Division were selling to the military authorities at retail prices a profit would be created at the expense of the Defence Department. All produce supplied to the camps, he considered, should be at current wholesale rates. He brought the subject forward as it involved efficiency and the keeping down of costs as a war measure.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 20 February 1941, Page 3
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