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OF NEW ZEALAND MUTTON. CHRISTCHURCH REPORT DENIED BY ACTING-PREMIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A denial that the British Government had taken over the whole of the New Zealand mutton surplus, as reported in a Press Association message from Christchurch, was given yesterday by the Acting-Prime Minister. Mr Fraser. "The statement, is incorrect.” said Mr Fraser, when the report, was brought to his notice. “There is no question of a commandeer."
The message referred to stated that it was reported that the British Government had decided as a defence precaution to take over the whole of New Zealand’s mutton surplus, amounting to about one million carcases.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1939, Page 4
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109NO COMMANDEER Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1939, Page 4
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