SUPPLIES TO THE CAMPS.
NEW CIVILIAN BOARD. By Telegraph—Special Correspondent WELLINGTON, Aug. 5. “Up till now there has been no failure of supplies of equipment-, but we arc establishing a new organisation altogether with regard to supplies, the Minister for Defence to-day. ‘I have boon talking it over with a- business man to-day and I hope that m a day or two I shall be able to announce that wo shall luivo some businessmen to assist us voluntarily with their services. This will take a great burden off the Defence Department. .1 think it will probably be necessary to have a board of three business men and to have also an executive officer not connected with our stores department. The duty of the Stores Department will then’ be to receive the goods from the "manufacturers, examine them to see that they are up to the standard, distribute them .to the various camps where they arc required and keep tho records of them and so on,”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4001, 6 August 1915, Page 7
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165SUPPLIES TO THE CAMPS. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4001, 6 August 1915, Page 7
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