CONTROL OF STEEL

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23998, 13 July 1943, Page 4

CONTROL OF STEEL

- ♦ GOVERNMENT SCHEME, PLANNED As a preliminary to the introduction of a scheme for the control of steel at the request of Britain and tM United States, and to facilitate the future procurement of steel from overseas, the Minister of Supply and Muniv tions (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) ha* issued the Steel Returns Control Notice, which calls for information re*. garding the stocks of steel held at New Zealand. The information » needed by the Ministry of Supply answer inquiries by the represents* tives of overseas countries from whies steel is being obtained at the present, time. V; The notice requires any person own*, ing or holding one hundredweight Of more of stainless or alloy steel or on* ton or more of other steel on June to furnish a return to the Ministry W. Supply by July 21. Returns must UK elude any steel in semi-finished forn» or in the forms of structural shape* or piling, plates, rails, or track a®*' cessories, hot rolled or cold finish®® bars (including flats and squares). pip*i tubing, wire, wire ropes, wire netting or other wire products, tinplate, tern® plate, tin mill black plate, sheets | strip, wheels or axles, or steel cast* R ings. The information required in* . eludes particulars of receipts andj» jj sales and usage during the thrw months before June 30.