PRICE OF IRON
STATEMENT BY MR NASH CHALLENGED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Hay
A. statement made in the House of Representatives on Thursday by Mr Nash, the Acting-Premier, that the price of roofing iron was £3O a ton today, as against £7B a ton in 1917, has been refuted by Mr W. L. King, president of the New Zealand Galvanised Sheet Iron Guild.
Mr King said today that the statement was somewhat misleading. The minimum selling price to builders of 26 gauge corrugated iron, as fixed by the Price Investigation Tribunal on January 1. 1941, was £55 8s 3d, less 21 per cent on monthly accounts, for 2cwt. bundles, with extra charges for loose sheets. This price, said Mr King, was increased in other centres by extra landing charges and the cost of railway carriage to inland towns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1941, Page 6
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139PRICE OF IRON Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1941, Page 6
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