RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30230, 7 September 1963, Page 20

RANDOM REMINDER

V.I. PIES

The development of secondary industry in New Zealand in exercising the ability of men who move in a high intellectual orbit. Conferences are being held, the inevitable Commission is doubtless in the offing. r’erhaps the most revealing information comes from the factfinding tours which are now common. On these expeditions, the magnates of the national economy grace the workshop

floor and observe, amid the clatter of machinery, the whine of wheels and workers, the Kiwi at his daily chores. Such a tour recently took place at a Christchurch furniture factory. A group of VlP’s was having an eye-opener inside one of New Zealand’s most up-to-date manufacturing plants. In the course of the visit the party descended on the spring-making workshop. Here, it was explained, a special machine produced astronomi-

cal numbers of springs at the throw of a switch It was further explained that the steel springs were specially tempered in a kiln to increase their efficiency. The door of the kiln was proudly swung open for a closer inspection by the absorbed. intent group; a dramatic moment. There was a considerable nause Some slight coughs, a little shuffling of leet. The contents of the kiln were highly interesting; they consisted of four meat pies.