SKILLED HELPERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23995, 19 June 1941, Page 9

SKILLED HELPERS

appeal by minister

INGENIOUS APPARATUS MANY CRAFTSMEN NEEDED LONDON, ,Innc is Art appeal for skilled technicians to operate and develop the radio location system was made by Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of State, in the British Broadcasting Corpora tion s North American transmission last night. In emphasising t<he importance o! radio, ho said it was this that was spreading its protecting wings over the people of Britain. It was radio that would save the homes and households of Britain. It was radio that located the enemy arriving and immediately reported him. It was radio that was fighting him and destroying him. Potentialities of Radio if radio had made all this progress since the war began, Lord Beaverbrook asked, what, would 1912 hold in store? What new discoveries lay ahead? He added that Sir Philip Joubert had developed as much aw ativ man the application of science to modern warfare. The Minister invited men of technical skill, men of vision, to join Britain. "I appeal to you technicians to come and help us." he said. "I call you to the front, line of human knowledge." He added that they would find comradeship the like of which they might never see again. The progress in research designed to defeat the night bomber was described by the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. C. R. Attire, fn answer to a question in the House of Commons, says the British official wireless. Value Already Proved "Thanks to the brilliant work of our scientists, ' he said, "great progress has been made in providing means for helping our fighting services in the task of locating and destroying the enemy. This contributed in no small measure to our victory in the Battle of Britain last autumn, and there have since been developments of high promise in many directions.

"Our industries are now turning out increasing quantities of ingenious apparatus which for maintenance and repair demands a large number of skilled men, especially radio mechanics. "Training in this work is being given by the fighting Services, and the Dominions and other parts of the Empire are also helping us. Canada, in particular, is organising powerful aid. Our need for these craftsmen is increasing rapidly, and we want more and more of them."