FARM EQUIPMENT SUPPLIES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23964, 3 June 1943, Page 6

FARM EQUIPMENT SUPPLIES

~ 1 ♦ MEETING OF SHORTAGES HORSESHOES NOW MADE AVAILABLE Advice that farmers wanting horse*hoes should place orders immediately with local merchants, as ample suplies were available, was given in a letter from the office of the Commissioner of Supply to the North Canterbury District Council of Primary Production, which was received at the council meeting yesterday. The council had written to the Ministry of Supply in reference to the shortage of spare parts for tractors, mouldboards for ploughs, and nuts, bolts, and horseshoes. The letter stated that the larger importers had placed orders with the Ministry of Supply for spare parts for tractors, and the .1943 order, if not already shipped, would be shipped in the very near future. This applied to spare parts for wheel type tractors, but the position of caterpillar type spare parts was rather more difficult, and some delay in securing releases and shipment would be almost inevitable. Ample provision had been made for the importation of mouldboards, but deliveries had been on the slow side, and one shipment from Britain had taken five months. A further shipment of mouldboards was expected shortly. A large order for nuts had been placed in the United States, and everything was being done to expedite delivery. Ample supplies of bolts are now to hand.