PLATING MATERIALS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 21, 20 October 1942, Page 3

PLATING MATERIALS

Minister Announces Control “Very severe restrictions on the use and the export of cadmium, nickel, chromic acids and salts have been effected in the United Kingdom, and it has been found necessary to follow a similar course in New Zealand so far as these plating materials are concerned, ’ said the Minister- of Supply, Mr. Sullivan, last night. “To meet the situation as it exists locally, tho plating control notice, 1942, has just been gazetted., , “This notice,” said the Minister, prohibits the use of tin or tin salts, cnromic acid or chromic salts, cadmium or cadmium salts, copper or copper salts, nickel or nickel salts, for any plating purpose excepting that certain equipment for the armed services must necessarily be plated, and where contractors are. engaged m work to the order of or with the approval of the Munitions Controller, or an officer of the 11.N.Z. A.F. in the course of his duty, plating materials may be used. “In the case of tin, no such exception is made, and the other materials listed may not be used except on an order issued with the approval of.the secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Rost and Telegraph Department, the Munitions Controller, the Controller of Radio Production, or an officer of the R.N.Z.A.F. in the course of his duty. -The notice is designed to meet the needs of our muuitions programme. “The necessity for sustaining our production of equipment for the armed services is sufficiently obvious to require no stressing, as also are the world shortages of the other essential materials listed in this order. Essentiality is the only basis on which tha use of strategic materials can bo allowed, and it is for this purpose .that the notice has been gazetted.”