AUCKLAND HAND GRENADES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16508, 7 October 1915, Page 3

AUCKLAND HAND GRENADES

QUESTION OF MANUFACTURE. (Fbom Ode Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Octobcr 6. The recent 1 successful tc'st of hand grenades manufactured in Auckland by the Sabulite Company, a branch of the Colonial Ammunition Company, was referred to by Mr Parr this afternoon. He pointed out that the grenade had become a weapon of great importance in the war, and many men of the New Zealand forces were now being given special training at the front in handling this weapon. He asked whether the local authorities could not go on with the manufacture, of these grenades, and whether men.could not be trained in the use of thern before they left New Zealand. The Minister in Charge of Military Supply (the Hon. Mr Myers) said he had been advised that the tests on the whole were satisfactory, and communications with regard to the manufacture of the grenades were now passing between the War Office and the Government. No-statement' about the matter could be made until a definite reply was received from. London.