SUPPLIES OF WIRE
IMPORTATION OF 2400 TONS NEGOTIATIONS IN PROGRESS -iir Arrang its to import 2400 tons ♦of-fencing wire from Canada were reported at a meeting of the Auckland District Council of Primary Production, on Monday. This would ' 'tomppise about 60 per cent of the Ijominion's normal annual yequire--4 ments of barbed wire, but only .About 25 per cent of plain wire needs for the year. Supplies would be assigned to merchants in proportion to their previous imports. : There has been an acute shortage ■of fencing wire since the outbreak I of war and this has been accentuated by the drive for higher prodhic-■ tion. Australian supplies are not available, as orders which accumulated there during the coal strike are being given preference. Negotiations. were in progress, it -was stated, to obtain further supplies of wire.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 208, 4 September 1940, Page 5
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136SUPPLIES OF WIRE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 208, 4 September 1940, Page 5
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