FILM ON WELDING

Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22514, 24 November 1944, Page 2

FILM ON WELDING

GREAT PUBLIC INTEREST So many people desired to see the film on the “Inside 6f Electric Arc Welding” last night, that it was necessary to ask the audience to take their seats and carry them to a larger room. Representatives of the Huntly, Ngaruawahia, Cambridge and Otorohanga Borough Councils attended. Introducing the film, the chairman of the Welding Institute remarked that the coming of the film to Hamilton was of particular interest as it was 16 years since electric welding was introduced to Hamilton by the Borough Council. It was not for a further 10 years that the Public Works Department would permit welding on its work, but it was a sign of progress that the film which had attracted so much interest had been loaned by the works department.

The president of the Welding Club also pointed out that welding had played a tremendous part in the war. •They had learnt the lesson very rapidly for the invasion of Europe had been made possible only by the special equipment that could be landed without harbours. This could never have been designed or manufactured in the time without electric arc welding. Hamilton was the first town in New Zealand to appreciate its possibilities and there was no doubt that even now it had hardly touched the fringe of its possibilities.