NEW ENGLAND STATES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 December 1940, Page 6

NEW ENGLAND STATES

HELPING AUSTRALIA’S WAR EFFORT

MR CASEY IN CONNECTICUT ADDRESSES HARTFORD BUSINESSMEN |U P A -By Electric relegrapti-CoDyrtght | (Received sth December, 10.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 4th December. Mr R. G. Casey, Australian Minister, to-day inspected Messrs Pratt Whitney’s Hartford (Connecticut) works and lunched informally with Hartford businessmen. In the afternoon he inspected the Colt firearms and other war supply plants. Mr Casey in a statement to the press said that New England states, particularly Hartford were most important for the Australian war effort. “We are dealing with twenty firms manufacturing machine tools in New England. The rate of production of weapons and munitions in increasing the range of Australian war production is dependent on the deliveries of these machine tools. We know you have done your best for us in respect to early deliveries and know you will not misunderstand when I say we are inevitably very anxious for better and better deliveries on which the lives of thousands of my fellow countrymen are dependent.” Mr Casey outlined the Australian development of war industries. He will later dine and speak at the Hartford Twentieth Century Club made up of two hundred leaders of big industries.