INCREASED BOX-MAKING
Wartime demands for packing cases for goods being sent to the armed forces had brought about a great increase in box-making factories, Mr. Arthur Seed told the Armed Forces Appeal Board today when he asked that a planer operator should be granted exemption from military service. Although the export of fruit was restricted, said Mr. Seed, the box factories would have to treat an additional 20,000,000 superficial feet of timber this year. That was the output of about twenty average-sized sawmills. Even last year, Mr, Seed said, the factories were working overtime.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1941, Page 11
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94INCREASED BOX-MAKING Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1941, Page 11
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