WAR STORES SOLD
FROM BANDAGES TO TOWNS £6BO MILLION WORTH I British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sunday. In an official review of the work of the Surplus Stores and Liquidation Department, which has now completed the task of selling stores left over from the Great War, it is stated that since the department began selling in 1919 more than £6BO million worth of the stores had been disposed of. Everything that remained after the war was sold, from bandages to whole towns like Gretna and Queensborough. The stock, which was scattered all over Europe and Asia, included thousands of miles of railway lines in Belgium, France, Salonika, Egypt and Palestine.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 10
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