Following the cabled announcement that orders for New Zealand timber jacks for use in demolition and rescue work in bombed areas in England have been placed in the Dominion, a member of the firm of A. and G. Price, Thames, states that the firm started making these over sixty years ago and has now completed over 30,000. When the Forestry Unit left the Dominion the firm donated the unit a number of jacks. Messrs. Chas. Judd, of Thames, have also made a large quantity of the jacks.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 309, 30 December 1940, Page 8
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87Following the cabled announcement that orders for New Zealand timber jacks for use in demolition and rescue work in bombed areas in England have been placed in the Dominion, a member of the firm of A. and G. Price, Thames, states that the firm started making these over sixty years ago and has now completed over 30,000. When the Forestry Unit left the Dominion the firm donated the unit a number of jacks. Messrs. Chas. Judd, of Thames, have also made a large quantity of the jacks. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 309, 30 December 1940, Page 8
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