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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 3 December 1940, Page 8

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d y t e RECORD IN CONCRETE POURING e AUCKLAND, This Day. By using a large fleet of motor vehicles and a central concrete mixing plant a record in the pouring of concret was established to-day on 1 the Internal Marketing Department’s 1 new building at Auckland. Deliver , ing over a ton of concrete per m.nut * - the lorries kept a large number o •• men busy mixing and spreading th • ‘ concrete from 7 o’clock this morning. t It is expected that by 7 o’clock tc- ? night the laying of the second floo • slab of the building, involving about 700 tons, will be completed, representing what is said to be the largest • quantity of concrete poured in one , day in New Zealand or Australia. ? The five-storey building is being constructed by the Fletcher Construction ' Co. on the flat slab system. f 1 CANADA'S EMERGENCY BUDGET OTTAWA, 2nd December ! The Emergency War Budget, impos--1 ing drastic taxes on luxuries ana removing the tariff from the wide range | of United Kingdom imports was introduced in Parliament by Mr Usley. The liudger prohibits imports of auto mobiles a P.d other luxuries, including manufactured tobacco, and spirits except from sterling areas, and imposes excise taxes ranging from 20 to 80 per cent, on private automobiles and 25 per cent, on radios, vacuum cleaner? and virtually every type of electrical appliance. It completely suspends the present tariff on United Kingdom exports of cotton, artificial silks, bituminous coal and luriturc. TJ.S. POWDER FACTORY EXPLOSION TACOMA (Washington), 2nd Dec. , Dynamitf blew up in th? mixing I room cf the Columbia Powder ComI pany, killing four. This is the second 1 j explosion in this area in a fortnight. The Federal Rureau of Investigation is inquiring into the matte:' URGENT QUESTION Mr H. Atrrore, M.P., asked the Min* 1 ister of Defence an urgent question • "Whether it is not possible to allov Territorials to leave camp cn 21s - j j December instead of 29th December j Parents and other relatives, ais Chambers of Commerce and tradesj people generally were asking for a j l re-arrangement.”