SURVEY OF RESOURCES
South Africa Prepares For Possible War PRODUCTION OF PLANES (Received 12, 11.10 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Feb. 11. The Government is taking a census of war materials in South Africa and has formed a War Supplies Board to decide what could be manufactured in the Union in the event of it being cut off from the rest of the Empire, and how to mobilise without paralysing the civil population. Imperial Chemical Industries has secured a contraet to erect a munitions factory at Pretoria. Britain is supplying one hundred Hawker-Hartsbeest aeropianes at the nominal cost of £200 each and another hundred will be built ut Pretoria, thereby enabling one thousand pilots to be trained. Ons flight of interceptor fighters has Deen ordered. The Government is acting on the principle that the best insurance for peace is preparedne&s for war.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 5
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