AMMUNITION CONTRACT
A PROBLEM OF EXCHANGE NEW ZEALAND POUND THE BASIS (Per United Press Association) '. AUCKLAND, Oct. 19. Judgment for the Crown was delivered to-day by Mr Justice Reed in an action brought by the Colonial Ammunition Company, claiming £6193 alleged to have been short paid by the Crown in respect to the purchase of ammunition. Costs were allowed the respondent according to "scale and disbursements to be ascertained by the registrar. The question raised related to a contract entered into in 1924 for the supply of small arms ammunition for Dominion requirements, and was whether there should be added to the contract price exchange in order to arrive at. the price payable by the Crown The suppliant contended that in respect to the years 1936 and 1937 the current War Office price should be converted into New Zealand currency.
His Honor upheld the contention . of the Crown that the number at > pounds paid in London were to be.., the same in New Zealand. ,♦
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23327, 20 October 1937, Page 7
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