FENCING WIRE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 August 1942, Page 4

FENCING WIRE

j SALES SUBJECT TO CONTROL A control order has been gazetted under which farmers or other persons requiring supplies of plain fencing wire must from to-day 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 scwl without authority, but where the quantity exceeds this amount, it will be necessary for the intending purchaser-user to make appMcation on a form which has beer approved by the Primary Industries Controller and which will be supplied by the distributors The Minister of Agricu'turc. 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 be lodged with thr* president or chairman of the Fencing Materials Association in Auckland. Wei. lington. Christchurch. or Dunedin, which had the like authority to approve applications. “While it is recognised that forms of control of this nature are somewhat irksome.” said the Minister, “it must j be accepted that in these difficult times I when supplies are made available to I the Dominion on certain conditions, a measure of control must be instituted. | Farmers will realise that now that supplies of wire or 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 wile to its normal use.”