PRICE OF ROOFING IRON
[by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday The statement made in the House of Representatives on Thursday night by the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Nash, that the price of roofing iron was £36 a ton to-day as against £7B a ton in 1917, has been refuted by Mr. W. L. King, president of the New Zealand Galvanised Sheet and Iron Guild. Mr. King said that the statement was somewhat misleading. The minimum selling price to builders of 26gauge corrugated iron, as fixed by the Price Investigation Tribunal on January 1, 1941, was £55 8s 3d, less 2| per cent on monthly accounts for 2cwt. bundles, with extra charges for loose sheets. This price, said Mr. King, was increased in other centres by extra landing charges and railway carriage to inland towns.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24034, 4 August 1941, Page 6
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