PURCHASE PASSED
DISH-WASHING UNIT' COOK NURSES’ HOME An addition of £425 on the estimates of the board for ihe current year for the purchase and installation of a dishwashing machine in the nurses’ home was agreed upon yesterday at the meeting of the Cook Hospital Board. “We have given way at last,” commented Mrs. E :R. Scott. Speaking in favour of the motion, Mr. H. H. Barker said the board had purchased four gross of New Zealand-made cups and within three months there was not one left. If a dish-washing machine was going to reduce breakages the board should give it a trial'. The board, he said, was compelled to buy Dominion-made ware while imported articles could be made available at a cheaper rate if import control permitted. Because the board used the locally-produced cups the board found it difficult to employ the labour it required. People used to produce those goods could be utilised in other positions of more value to the community.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 4
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164PURCHASE PASSED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 4
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