"INVALUABLE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 308, 28 December 1940, Page 9

"INVALUABLE."

N.Z. TIMBER JACKS. USE IN RESCUE WORK. ORDER CABLED TO DOMINION. 11--r-.ru <|.r o">r:.n War Co. r»s|.oti(]i-lit «lth the -■•""!>d N7.V. I 11. K'luin.-id. Mr. .J. H. Hall.) I."XIX >\. |)..,-,.„,|„., ■>-. New '/.•■■.r..\ i,l timli--. j.-n ks. patented ■''"I 'ii-i ; '' in i !i- h'liiiiiiinii. .'i!-. being ••i . u'-l in -I li'u.l, .iii.l it-, in- work ii'-r !. ..I,: „ bombing-. A dem.ni.-tni- ! " I- ■■ - '■ 'iv in, ii ..I ti,,. V..„ ■/,.,,. lin ■ • ■■-:... I 'nil Mi,..n,.,| (1,,, ~\V < of I '•■ ■• ■•'■■■<■ i I. - 1,1 ill.' iilliVr ;;l, k'-' 11-,... liilin - • ' :1 1 -1!-. iI, •_■ h, i\ v lift- :: ,-ni nt\ k--I mi, .-.,iimi„-,.,|.-' u-,-,,1,. tin.- War 1 uli •■ ■ iijii.--,-, iii ,-li.t ige nt flii- work. "'ii.i! '!. • New Zealand jacks would he in >•' In . lII.' fur ii-i- iii London under pre--■•iii ■ Mil h:. .iii~." Accordingly a supply i- ;■ ■ ■ 111 -_r or,!ei .'ii lI,Mil New Zealand by

Meanwhile the War Office has requested the use of a dozen jacks from flip Foresters, each of the three comf);inios of whom came overseas equipped <vit.li 14. Thcue dozen were sent to London to-day from tlie country in charge of two expert Xew Zealand bush workers, who arc being attached to the Hoyal Engineers for several weeks as instructors. Thua the now equipment is being made immediately available for urgent rescue work, and Britten troops are being given an opportunity to become accustomed to its use before a general issue of the jack arrives from New Zealand. Suggestions for the use of timber jacks in bombed areas were first made liy Colonel J. G. Eliott, officer commanding the Forestry Unit. In the opinion of the Salvage Corps engineer and senior officers who have seen it working in the woods, it is probable that demolition gangs in all the big cities will shortly be issued with the New Zealand product.