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Fence Wire Shortage Should Be Overcome By June Next Year

“Unless anything unforeseen happens we fully expect to overtake all fencing wire shortages by June 1949,” is the gist of a statement on the wire position presented at the last meeting of the Aid for Britain National Council by Wire Distrtf-. butors Ltd.

In releasing this information the Chairman of the Aid for Britain National Counpil, Mr F. P. Walsh, said that this would be good news for farmers anxious to bring new land into cultivation o to subdivide present holdings in order to increase their production. The statement reported that Wire Distributors Ltd. were fairly confident in advising that the difficulties regarding wire purchasing had been Overcome.

There is a shipment of 2427 tons of all kinds of wire principally from Belgium on board the s.s. Kaikoura, which recently arrived at Auckland and is due in Wellington on December 23, Lyttelton December 31, and Dunedin January 7, 1949. ' Quantities of wire booked for shipment or> already landed: No. 8 gauge plain galvanised wire, 10,158 tons; other gauges, 2,337; barbed wire, 10,405; hay baling wire, 2,188.

The whole of these orders for wire has been already Shipped or is booked for shipment by the end of March 1949, and supplies are now coming forward in satisfactory quantities.

Wire Distributors Ltd. stated that they had just finished calling for 1949 requirements from all users, and are now booking orders to cover these requirements for the first half of 1949 totalling 9,935 tons, made up of: 6,554 tons of No. 8 gauge plain galvanised wire, 749 tons of other gauges, 2,632 tons of barbed wire.

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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 35, 20 December 1948, Page 5

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Fence Wire Shortage Should Be Overcome By June Next Year Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 35, 20 December 1948, Page 5

Fence Wire Shortage Should Be Overcome By June Next Year Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 35, 20 December 1948, Page 5

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