FARM IMPLEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13138, 12 September 1940, Page 6

FARM IMPLEMENTS

BRITISH MANUFACTURE FOR WORLD’S FARMERS

Britain’s edge tool industry has organised its own Export- Group to send overseas this year more than 7,000,000 “pieces,” nearly all of them agricultural Implements. These are, for the most part, plantation hoes, forks, picks, spades, shovels, scythes and hatchets used in the production of sugar, tea, coffee, rice, maize, cocoa, cotton, rubber, palm oil, soya beans, oranges and bananas.

~ About two thirds of them will go to the Empire including Australia, New Zealand, India, Ceylon, Burma, Cyprus, Malaya,' North Borneo and the Mandate of Palestine. The others will be exported to Greece, China, Indo-China, the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippine Islands.

The plant is now at work, for the greater part in the English Midlands, On this considerable output. It lids p,n important bearing on Britain’s food supply which might suffer from lack of tools for agriculture; indeed, after '3O months of the last war the dearth of tools in Nyasaland became so acute that the Government made an order that their manufacture should take precedence over war work already in hand.