SUPPLIES OF WIRE
IMPORTATION OF 24M TONS Arrangements to import 2400 .tons of fencing wire from Canada were reported at a meeting of the .Auckland District Council of Primary Production yesterday. This 'would comprise about 60 per cent of the Dominion's normal annual requirements of barbed wire, but only about 25 per cent of plain wire needs for the year. Supplies would be assigned to merchants in proportion to their previous imports. There has been an acute shortage of fencing wire since the outbreak of war and this has been accentuated by the drive for higher production. Australian supplies are riot available, as orders which accumulated there during the coal strike are being given prefex-ence. Negotiations were in progress, it was stated, to obtain further supplies of wire.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23751, 3 September 1940, Page 6
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128SUPPLIES OF WIRE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23751, 3 September 1940, Page 6
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