STORES CONTROL BOARD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19624, 19 October 1933, Page 13

STORES CONTROL BOARD

EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON. October 17. In the House of Representatives today. the Hon. J. Bitchener. chairman of the Stores Control Board, presented the annual report of the board. During the year ended March 31. 1933, the expenditure on the purchase of stores was £2.109,G98 as compared with £2,757,214 in the year ended March 1932. a reduction of £647.mg Compared with the previous year the expenditure on some of the individual items was as under:

That a regular and well-spaced service of fast vessels would be of even greater value to primary producers than the recent saving In freights effected by new contracts was the opinion expressed by Mr W. A. loms. chairman of the Dairy Produce Control Board, in the course of an address to I the delegates at the annual meeting of ; the Taranaki Federation of Dairy Companies at Stratford. Mr lorns emI phasised that this could be attained only by modifying the present system whereby overseas liners called at as 1 many as eight or nine po. Ls on the j New Zealand coast collecting produce. , by arranging that a service of up-to-date liners load only at the larger port? produce being concentrated there by a carrier system. The employers' proposals for a new shop assistants' award were the subject of Conciliation Council proceedings on Friday. Th“ Wellington Amalgamated Society of Shop Assistants objected to the claims of the applicants and submitted the existing award as counterproposals Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.. James Smith, Ltd. C. Smith. Ltd . and the D.1.C., Wellington, were the ajiplicant? The projxxsals were generally for a reduction In waßes. but more particularly the wages of Juniors For the employers, it was suggested that the starting age should be raised to 18. I the tendency being for Junior, to enter ‘ the trade at a later age than formerly. The proceedings we adjourned without finality being icached.

1932 1933 £ £ Railways 1.048.570 897.104 Public Works .. .. 959.668 371.979 Defence 18.239 36.660 Lands and Survey 34,323 19.120