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JAM FOR THE TROOPS

BIG ORDERS FOR AUSTRALIA'. Bj:T«lesra.Dk—Pr'aa' Association—Co'nyrlElit London, November 25. The War Office, through the Hon. R. B. Wise, Agent-Genoral for New South .Wales, lias arranged with tlio Peacock- ■ Johnson Company to supply .1,000,000 lb. of jam and the Stanmoro Company ' 800,0001b. • • " [A few- weeks' back, says the Mel- ■ tjourne "Age" of November 12, Victorian jam manufacturers approached 1 the Government to make. ■ tions to tho Imperial authorities to accept Victorian jam for. the commissariat at tho front. As a result the iWar Office agreed to -consider tenders submitted by the local trade. Offers of 3,076,0001b. of jam at reasonable i prices were immediately forthcoming, and the Agent-General at once got into communication with the Imperial authorities, to urge that they be accepted. ■Yesterday the Minister of Agriculture' received from him the following cablegram: "Tho War Office acccpts all the offers of jam; shipment to commence in December. Obtain as many further offers as possible. Anticipate I can obtain orders up. to 10,000,000.'-" The Minister immediately this communica-'] tion came to hand got into touch with the jam, manufacturers, and informed • ' them of their success. As a result it is thought there will be further tenders to supply Victorian jam "at once'"cabled to Groat Britain. Should the AgontGeneral be justified in his anticipations, there will bo a groat impetus not only to the jam manufacturing industry, but there will be also a much bigger' local market for Victorian-ttuit.], . ( THE WAR OFFICE CONTRACT. (Roc. November 26, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 25. The Viotorian Government has seour'ed War Office-contracts for a, further ,'3i million jwunds of jam. :

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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2630, 27 November 1915, Page 6

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JAM FOR THE TROOPS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2630, 27 November 1915, Page 6

JAM FOR THE TROOPS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2630, 27 November 1915, Page 6

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