DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.
COST OF SUPPLIES. [by telegram.—press association.] DUNEDIN, Monday. Before the Defence Expenditure Commission Captain Myers, A.A.G., Otago district, suggested that it, would save money and time if more discretion were granted to district headquarters in regard to granting extra leave to men coming from camp. Captain Dobson, A.D.S., maintained that when buying supplies on such a large scale it was a wrong principle to advertise for tenders. The moment the Government advertised that it wanted some particular lino in bulk the price went up. In the witness's opinion it would pay the Government now to take over the transports at the first arranged price, if it has the power to do so, instead of continuing to pay in charters and then standing the cost of refitting the ships at the end of the war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16796, 12 March 1918, Page 4
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