MILITARY EQUIPMENT FOR 1918.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16158, 12 March 1918, Page 2

MILITARY EQUIPMENT FOR 1918.

; DISPLAY BY MESSRS J. BALLANTYNE AND CO. Messrs J. Ballantync and Co., of Christehurch, are, at the request of the •Minister in charge of Munitions and Supplies, making an exhibition of military clothing to be supplied to 1918 Reinforcements. The display is of special interest, as a demonstration of the quality of goods obtainable from New Zealand woollen mills and clothing factories. The garments consist of socks, undersliirts, underpants, working shirts, puttees, cholera belts, blankets, and service uniforms, including trousers, tunics, pantaloons, hats, boots, and greatcoats. The names of the various mills supplying the articles are also displayed, and that the is able to eqnip its soldiers with a complete outfit of clothing from its own resources is a fact that should impress itself on the public mind. A certain number of articles, such as denims, thread, buttons, etc., are not yet produced in New Zealand, but apart from a few such details, men leaving the Dominion this year will stand equipped in Now Zealand-made equipment throughout. A display of these goods has already been made in Wellington, proving of great interest, and it is the intention of the Department to forward the collection to other centres of the Dominion, in order to give the public a better understanding of what is now thoroughly satisfactorily accomplished for New Zealand's soldiers in New Zealand.