ENGINEERING WAR
MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT EMPIRE’S VITAL NEED ADVICE TO NEW ZEALAND (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, TuesdayImmediate decisive action to increase New Zealand’s war production by building and equipping new factories, the diversion of men from ordinary engineering activity to war work, and the training of men in engineering trades was urged by a leading British engineer. Dr. P. L. Henderson, who is travelling to Australia to be chief designing engineer for an Australian company engaged on war orders. Dr. Henderson declared that the vital need for Britain and the Empire was an ever-increasing output of mechanical war equipment. This did not appear to be sufficiently realised in the Dominions, and greater efforts were required to enable the Empire to put forward her maximum strength in the struggle ahead.
“It is an engineering war,” he said, “and work of factories will have tremendous effect on the final result.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21203, 28 August 1940, Page 10
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