WAR NECESSITIES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20050, 23 September 1939, Page 7

WAR NECESSITIES

PRODUCTION IN N.Z. BRITAIN’S GREAT NEED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “Britain will require every pound of meat, dairy produce, and wool that New Zealand can produce and all methods to increase the production of war necessities must be ardently pursued,” said the chairman of directors, Mr. H. E. Worsp, at the annual meeting of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company. “There is a great responsibility on every New Zealander to spare no effort to assist the Mother Country in her time of acute need. On farm, factory, wharf and in all other directions there will be no room for the slacker. All work must bo honourably and loyally carried on. Farmers must be supplied with willing workers, and there must be no laxity of effort in dairy factories, freezing works and on the wharves.

“The quickest turn round must be given overseas vessels. The shortage of ships, delays from the convoy system, and the dislocation of food supplies from neutral countries make this imperative.” Mr. Worsp explained that during the war the surplus principal primary products above their own requirements would be purchased by the New Zealand Government for sale to the British Government at prices to be agreed upon by the two Governments.