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Enterprise
SUVA Chamber of Commerce has strongly criticised the Govern ment’s plan to import its own food stocks.
It is claimed that the Govern ment should not encroach on the activities of private enterprise.
Formerly the gaol, which makes bread for itself and Government institutions, has imported its own flour, and that activity now seems to have spread to the importation of other food supplies for Govern
merit vessels, lighthouses and other Government uses In addition to the schools and hospitals.
Reserve supplies were also kept at the gaol for use in any emerg ency, such as hurricanes or floods, where food would be urgently re quired. The accounting was done by the Government Storekeeper.
Government’s proposal to transfer the whole of this importing to the Stores Department is visualised as a general Government scheme for importing its food supplies. It is estimated that the plan will involve the building of a special store of 6.000 square feet.