WIRING MATERIAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 261, 20 November 1939, Page 4

WIRING MATERIAL

CONTRACTORS SHORT ‘ -SCA RCIEI A S I )J A M ON DS’ ’ Jk The combined effects of short stocks, due to restriction* of imports, and of the sudden demand from tin; Government for military purposes,lyhaYe left" the Dominion market ahnos%\\wbare of essential wiring materials for business and housing installations. So acute lias the shortage become that firms already are introducing rationing of jobs, prominent Gisborne contractor stated to a Gisborne Herald reporter. Conduit and cable, the essential materials in wiring jobs, are particularly short in supply, and! there is no early project of the stringency being relieved. On the other hand, there is'a prospect >vire men being thrown out or work owing td the firms being unable to carry ou with insta?)^i o,is * A Wellington firm of wholesalers, in reply to inquiries from the nofirm, has indicated that conduit is “scarce as diamonds” in the main centres, he import, restretions had reduced available stocks in New Zealand'' of conduit and cable to a very low level before the outbreak, of war, and the demands of the Government on the available stocks almost completely absorbed what was then in the country... It was stated by the Wellington fißn; that there was hardly a foot of, conduit to be procured in that city.