War Office Purchases.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, Feb. 18.
The Daily Express asks the War Office whether Houlder Bros, received a monopoly of the transport of horses purchased for remount purposes in the Argentine, receiving £l4 5s per horse, when £7 left an ample profit; whether the War Office bought at Bowen, Queensland, large numbers of wild horses at £l3 each, though the local price was £4 to £6; whether Bergl was connected with the sale of these horses; whether the Houlders received £lO to £ls eaeh for carrying Australian horses to the Cape when private shippers paid £8; whether the two first cargoes of meat under the new contract were obtainable from the River Plate, and the name of the carriers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 345, 20 February 1902, Page 2
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