BLANKETS FOR CIVILIANS
—': ♦. ——— v*'v; : " The Army Department has been approached in the matter of releasing ffurplus stocks of army blankets for civilian use, but the objections raised, to this course are very sound,” *he Minister of Supply (Mr D. G. Sullivan) has replied to Mr Clyde Carr, M.P., dealing with several Inquiries made by a Timaru representative of the New Zealand Workers’ . Union. “Arrangements are in train for the manufacturing of plain grey blankets without the distinguishing army stripe." It will naturally be some time before the effect of this arrangement can be felt, and I fully appreciate the difficulty experienced by woolgrowers in supplying blankets for shearers,” said. Mr Sullivan.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25444, 27 January 1944, Page 7
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