MOVE TO CONSERVE TIMBER
STANDARDISED DOORS (P.A.) WELLINGTON. May 12. The Minister of Supply (the Hon. D G. Sullivan) announced to-day that it has been decided, as a war-time measure, with the object of conserving timber and increasing production by avoiding waste of time and labour, to standardise the manufacture of doors. The decision is embodied in a specification prepared by the Standards Institute after consultation with interested bodies. The decision to introduce this specification was made on the advice of an expert committee convened by the Commissioner of Defence Construction. The Minister said that the specification provided for the manufacture of seven types of doors and for the use of kiln-dried timber unless approval to the contrary was obtained from the Building Controller. The specification conforms in the main to the British war emergency specification, which has been universally adopted by Government departments in Britain,
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23946, 13 May 1943, Page 4
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