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MORE ANTI-ENGLISH CONTRACTS.

From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, September 7. A large contract for tinned meats for the British Army has been placed with the Libby. McNeill interests, through the Director of Supplies Department of the British War Office. The contract, it is reported, was -a competitive affair, England, Canada, Australia and Brazil entering with tenders. Quality and method -of packing and sealing got Chicago the business. Cables from London state that the British Government are highly satisfied with th* foodstuffs supplied by the Chicago packers, and that the War Department have every confidence in stockyard firms of ropute. The foods for the British Army, •according to one correspondent, will be packed under the supervision of British representatives —at the invitation of the packers—although the •authorities were willing to rely upon the new pure food regulations recently inaugurated in the United States. An interview with a War Office -official printed in a semi-official paper, says:—We had to go to Chicago for our supplies, because the •quality of the foods is superior to any on the world's market. They give us what we require in weight and size, and agree to pack our products in new buildings that are spotlessly clean. On August 27th, Mr Haldane.'in reply to a question put to him in • the House of Comn-ons, announced j that an order for 100,000 pairs of | horseshoes had recently been placed I by the War Department in America, adding,, "in the interests of the economical administration of the Army, j I cannot disregard sources of supply, which are satisfactory both as regards price and efficiency." j In consequence of losing this contract the United Horseshoe and Nail Company, of Cubitt Town, have had to dismiss a number uf their men, but Mr Will Crooks is going tocham- i pion their cause. I A fortnight back, I mentioned the j trouble with the chair-makers, of j High Wycombe, on account of the efforts of our "patriotic" Government to get chairs made under cost price. Luckily the foreigners are nowhere in this industry, and the Government were compelled to place their contract at Home. A large number of tenders have been placed with the High Wycombe firms at ' the rate of 3,000 per firm.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8864, 25 October 1907, Page 3

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372

MORE ANTI-ENGLISH CONTRACTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8864, 25 October 1907, Page 3

MORE ANTI-ENGLISH CONTRACTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8864, 25 October 1907, Page 3

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