BRITAIN.
| ' NEW MUNITIONS BRANCH. I (Australian and N.Z. .Cable Assa. ! and Reuter.) LONDON, April 1. A new branch of the Ministry of Munitions Uepartmont has been established, with Mr Lionel Phillips, Controller, to dual with 'the examination and development of mineral properties in th< j United Kingdom, wich the exception of'coal and iron: . The new department is likely to hare specially valuable purposes. A -war advisory committee of nine members will assist the Controller. THE BARROW STRIKE. BALLOT IN PROGRESS. Barrow-on-Furncss engineers are balloting today on a proposal' to resume, work to-morrow poncur>-cn'tly with a sitting of eomposito conferences to settle grievances.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16235, 3 April 1917, Page 8
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