SHORTAGE OF STEED
Making Of Farm Machinery (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 7. New Zealand manufacturers could carry more of the burden of farm machinery production if steel and labour supplies were increased, said the president of the New Zealand Implement Manufacturers’ Association, Mr. 1. H. Lawn, when commenting today on a statement made a’t a meeting of the North Canterbury Primary Production Council that there was a shortage of such machinery in the South' Island. There was a world-wide shortage of agricultural machinery because of steel being diverted to the production of munitions and ships, said Mr. Lawn. The shortage was likely to become more severe? as time went on. Unfortunately many farmers still expected to get their machinery off the shelf, instead of advising factories of their requirements well ahead so that arrangements could be made with the Ministry of Supply to procure the materials of manufacture. There was still a very large measure of production of agricultural machinery in New Zealand, Mr. Lawn said, but with the building up in agricultural production there had been a greater demand for certain types and classes of machinery. If the manufacturers could be made aware many months ahead of what the. farmers’ requirements were, arrangements could no doubt be made for greater supplies to be manufactured
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 190, 8 May 1943, Page 5
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