FENCING WIRE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 283, 28 August 1942, Page 6

FENCING WIRE

Sales Subject To Control SUPPLIES FOR FARMERS A control order has been gazetted under which farmers or other persons requiring supplies of plain fencing wire must from today comply with certain conditions which have been outlined to Fields Division officers of the Agricultural Department and to primary production councils. Retailers will be entitled to sell plain fencing wire in quantities not exceeding scwt. without authority, but where the quantity exceeds this amount, it will be necessary for the intending purchaseruser to make application on a form which has been approved by the Primary industries Controller and which will" t>e supplied by the distributors. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Barclay, said last evening that applications for supplies of fencing wire required for farming purposes should be submitted "to the secretary of the nearest district council of primary production, which has the authority to approve applications on certain conditions. The Minister asked farmers to co-operate with the district councils to the fullest extent and comply with the regulations. For supplies required by users for other than farming purposes, applications should tie lodged with the president or chairman of the Fencing Materials Association in Auckland, Wellington. Chrisi church or Dunedin, which had the like authority to approve applications. “While it is recognized that forms of control of this nature are somewhat irksome,” said the Minister, “it must be accepted that in these difficult times when supplies are made available to the Dominion on certain conditions, a measure of control must be instituted. Farmers will realize that now that supplies of wire are arriving more freely, it will not be necessary for the Army to commandeer wire, and those farmers who have been holding wire for defence purposes may now put the wire to its normal use.”