CENTRAL PURCHASE BOARD.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3428, 6 March 1920, Page 7

CENTRAL PURCHASE BOARD.

FOR GO\'ERNl\'lE.\'T SI,TI’I’I.T_ES

A suggestion for the cstablislunont of an expert Central Purchasing Board

for the Val'iou;\‘ (}‘rov(‘l'ulneni‘ Dop:ll't-mg-nts, has, it is ulldcr;~'tood_. been 1111-‘ 1101' considoratioii 311 '\Vollington for‘ some time past by $1 collfel‘l‘llco of departniontal I'Cpl'oSCl).‘tilt'i\‘CS. 13111101" the pl'csCll‘r systmii, or \\'allt of sysrmn, it is poin‘rov.l out, plll-c.llasos :11-11 madv by the several dopamtmoixts in :::;:::M\'ll:l'.", liaippy-_9;n-11101:}-' fashion. TllOl result. is that \'al'ying prices. at '[»il]lE‘Sl vcxisiclerubly V211.-yixig prices, are paidl by the State for the same class ofi goods; and it is urged that a Cmltr:ll_i Purchasing Board for the whole of‘, the State departments nligh"i‘ wellj save the Dominion ‘fons of thousandsi sterling per annum. Cases have ocr~11"1'c11 in which large -.111-antitics ofi‘ material scrapped by one depzll'tnlcnt

as valueless luLV(;' been bought eat :: good price by ano'thol‘. A large saving might also be cifcctod, it is stated, it" All buying for the New Zealand Govorxmnmnt in Londoxi: was similarly exttmstod to experts. It is P§3illt.ed out, also that the war loans raised in New Zcaland were floated at a much lower cost than the war loans raised at Home, and that this seems to indicate that an important sa\3'ing might bo effected in the floating of loans on the London margct.