CESSATION OF MANUFACTURE

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23699, 25 July 1942, Page 4

CESSATION OF MANUFACTURE

: 9 DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES DATES FIXED A FEW WEEKS AHEAD .Dates on which the manufacture of numerous domestic electrical appliafices must cease have been determined by the Factory Controller, the time allowed meanwhile being, it was stated yesterday, a dispensation to enable firms to use partly fabricated parts. Manufacture of these, appliances Will be allowed after the dates announced only with the special approval of the controller, and this will be given only Where the manufacture of domestic types of equipment will be required in the future for certain special nondomestic uses. The manufacture of electric ranges, rangettes, and table cookers, electric irons, electric jugs, ahd electric kettles is required to stop on September 30 this year. The manufacture of the following is required to stop on August 31: —Hot plates, toasters, grillers, hair-waving machines, pokerwork appliances, domestic urns, ironing machines, radiators and coal fires, and immersion heaters. information to this effect was received yesterday by the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association from the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation. A letter from the federation states that in both the United Kingdom and' the United States the maximum, time given to manufacturers after the introduction of manufacturing prohibitions was 90 days. Because of the considerable amount of Work in progress in most factories concerned ih New Zealand. however, the controller had agreed to make the prohibition operate from the dates announced, which allowed more latitude than was given for the same items in the two countr'es mentioned.