SURPLUS ARMY STORES.
HUGE SALES BY BRITAIN. SUM OF £107,000,000 REALISED. Up to the present £107,000,000 has been realised by the sale of Government surplus stores under the direction of the Bisposal Board of the Ministry of Munitions, says a London paper under date June 12. Among the totals the following are the more noteworthy itemß: Horses and animals, £3,701,08 in the United Kingdom, and £10,481,719 abroad; ferrous metals, £2,118,800; non-ferrous metals, £8,5.17,218; chemicals and explosives, £13,949,051, and for sales to contractors, £3,220,711, A feature of the sales of mechanical transport, including agricultural machin- : ery, in various parts of the country lias been that the prices obtained rule uniformly high, the sale at Winchester realising £2OOO more than the inventor valued the machinery.
The Controller of Telephones, ToleRTuplis, and Electrical Instruments hus visited Belgium, unci sales will be considerably accelerated. Of the several allien Authorised by him, one Included 150,000 lumps.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1919, Page 11
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151SURPLUS ARMY STORES. Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1919, Page 11
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