MOSQUITO NETTING
MILLIONS OF YARDS FOR LIBYAN CAMPAIGN London, May 9. Millions ot yards of mosquito netting for the Allied troops in Libya are being made in a British factory which in’peacetime supplied artificial silk for ladies’ lingerie. When the Libvan campaign started the Government called for twenty million yards of this netting to protect the troops against malaria-carrying mosquitoes, sandflies and other pests. The material had of course been produced in Britain for many years by lace machines in Nottingham, but more than 11.000 miles of it was required "at once or sooner.” It was a tough proposition. The Government, however. was soon relieved of its anxieties. for all the owners of war-knit-ting machines in Britain met and undertook to adapt their machinery to the job. The alterations called for careful work by expert machinists, and many impromptu ideas.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 15 May 1942, Page 6
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140MOSQUITO NETTING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 15 May 1942, Page 6
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