MUNITIONS OUTPUT
GREAT RISE ON LAST WAR HIGHER STEEL PRODUCTION (Received March 6, 5.35 p.m.) British Wireless LONDON, March 5 "We started this war with nine ordnance factories against three when the last war began," said Earl Stanhope, Lord Privy Seal, in his review iu the House of Lords of the employment situation.
A large number of other factories were under construction. When completed they would require a large amount of additional labour. In additional construction by the Government £50,000,000 had been involved, and in 400 cases extensions to the works of private firms had been approved. It was hoped to produce 1-1.000,000 tons of steel this year, against 8,(100,(WO available in 1914. We were producing shells at .10 times the rate attained after the first six months f>f the last war.
The real problem confronting the Government, said Lord Stanhope, was where men were to be found to complete the work the Government foresaw for factories that would be coming into production.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 10
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