PALESTINE’S GROWING INDUSTRIES

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 47, 19 November 1941, Page 9

PALESTINE’S GROWING INDUSTRIES

Buying Representative On Way To U.S.A.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 18. To' make more machinery purchases for Palestine’s rapidly-growing primary and secondary industries, Mr. A. Dickenstein. representative of the Workers’ Bank, Ltd., Palestine, has arrived at Auckland and will leave shortly for the United States by air. Mr. Dickenstein passed through Auckland after a similar mission last mouth and since then has made a brief visit to Palestine.

There had been further increases in land under cultivation in the last few months, he said. New irrigation works were being pushed ahead and the wheat crop had been very good and was sufficient to supply practically all the country’s requirements. Industry was also making rapid advances Most factories were working three shifts a day, new mechanical workshops were being established and the output of agricultural machinery was growing.

There had been few recent air raids on Palestine, Mr. Diekenstein added. About a month ago Italian machines made a raid on Haifa and dropped a few bombs imt no damage was done. Racial disputes were at a standstill, Jews and Arabs being united in their opposition to the Axis.