MORE BRITISH WAR ECONOMY.

NZ Truth, Issue 571, 27 May 1916, Page 11

MORE BRITISH WAR ECONOMY.

While the National Portrait Gallery has boon closed to tho public In the interesta of national economy, tho trustees havo within the past ten days paid £ 12,000 for two pictures. £3000 of which haa gone to Holland. Simultaneously £ 41,000 haa been i»pent on three acre© of ground fro iroprvvs tho demesne of tho British Reoldoney at Cairo, and tho Admiralty haa given a Shefllotd firm au order for 20,000 ivoryhandlcd knlvca for thn Navy, not to mention 20,000 nioro with electro* plated handles.