Shortage of Tools
With over 60 returned servicemen on the waiting list, the duplication of the Auckland carpentry training centre under the Rehabilitation Department is still being held up owing to the scarcity of tools in the country. At present there are three classes under instruction in various stages of the 52 weeks' course, and there are approximately 24 men in each class. In the. last two classes inaugurated all the men are from overseas. Rabbits for Britain A total of 1,750,000 frozen rabbit carcases had already been shipped, or were now ready for shipment, to Great Britain as a war-time activity of the Department of Internal Affairs, giving vital assistance in maintaining adequate meat supplies, said the Minister of Internal Alfairs, the. Hon. W. E. Parry, recently. It was expected, he added, that by the end of the year the number of rabbits exported would total 2,500,000.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 7, 12 September 1944, Page 2
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148Shortage of Tools Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 7, 12 September 1944, Page 2
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