SHIPBUILDING BOOM

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21853, 25 October 1945, Page 8

SHIPBUILDING BOOM

BRITISH YARDS’ ORDERS PROSPECTS FOR YEARS (Special Correspondent.) (10 arm.) LONDON, Oct. 24. A brighter side of British industrial life is the fact that the shipyards in England and .Scotland are experiencing something of a boom and all are working at full pressure. It is stated that the remaining Admiralty contracts and orders for new merchant shipping and fishing trawlers, many from foreign countries, look like giving the shipyards a peroicl of prosperity for some years to come.

Shipping news of direct New Zealand interest is the fact that Lady Freyberg launched the 1200-ton motorship Kanna for the Union Steam Ship Comnany at the yard of Henry Robb, Limited, where the naval ships Moa and Kiwi were built. The Kanna will be used for coastal trading. An indication of the manner in which Britain is reconverting from war to peace-time industry is a factory near Oxford, which was used to turn out millions of shell cases and which is now being fitted with a plant for manufacturing refrigerators. As from January 1 it is anticipated that 70,000 domestic refrigerators will be turned out in the first year, rising t.o 100.000 annually.