SOLDIERS' FENCING WIRE.
GOYERMENT DEPORTATIONS A QUANTITY PROM AUSTRALIA A suggestion made by Mr Nash (Palmerston North) that the Government should import a shipment ot fencing wire for the benefit of return-, ed soldiers was replied to on Tuesday by the Minister of Lands (the Hon. D. H. Guthrie). Mr Guthrie said that all along it had been the policy of the Government to import for the use of soldiers both fencing wire and iron, and the Government had in many cases been' able to give soldiers, wire at £2O or £3O per ton less thanV they would have had to pay in the absence of any special arrangement. ■» It had not been able, however, up to the present time, to import wire in' ; very large quantities. At the present moment it was negotiating for the purchase of a large quantity of wire \ from Australia, and probably the wire . would be available in a very few.'v weeks' time. He would not say at present what the price of the wire. would be. i
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Waipa Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 1009, 21 October 1920, Page 5
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173SOLDIERS' FENCING WIRE. Waipa Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 1009, 21 October 1920, Page 5
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