New Zealand.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 65, 19 March 1915, Page 6

New Zealand.

THE DOMINIbN’S WOOLLEN TRADE. Per Press Association. Wellington, if larch 19. In reference to the news''telegraphed from Auckland that a repiesontative of the’ Federal Government had arrived there to place orders for uniforms and cloth, it appears that not only is there a representative of the Australian Government, but there are at least two representatives fiere- of private manufacturing firms, who aio presumably Government contractois, trying to procure some of their material here.-

The Defence" Minister was asked whether the operations of-these private individuals were lively to embarrass the New 'Zealand Defence aiithorfties. ■ Mr Allen replied that he could not’ speak with any assurance until hb kney what ,was going on, and what orders to be filled were likely to be. “Up till the present,” he continued, “woollen mills And clothiers had supplied the heeds of the Government very satisfactorily. The Government have ample under the “War ReAct to preyent any’ person whosoever from taking away from New Zealand material that may be required for our own forces.”