The High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand, Sir Harry Batterbee, during an inspection of a boot factory engaged on war production In ClH’istchurch, was particularly interested in the operation of a machine slated to be the only one of its tvpe in Australia or New Zealand It had reduced to seconds an opera tion that formerly took several min ntes by hand. Sir Harry was even more interested to learn that the man operating the high-speed machine was the only one in the Commonwealth or the Dominion able to work it. The man had enlisted for service overseas at the outbreak of the war, but because Ire could not be replaced he had ben kept at home.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 7, 3 October 1941, Page 3
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