THE HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Extreme Activity In Great ; Britain . - ■ ; > (British Offie'ial Wireless.) '. . . ' ; ; . . ■ ' EHGEY, Augl 11. Britain 's primary -industries con'tinue. to be extremely active.' Eresh 'eyi'deiice ; ; is providediby.'the iron a,nd..steel. output- ^ ifigafes,for;JuJy. , t . . - - , , • These. show- that the production, Qf:;. pig irap. amounted to- '729,300 tons, figur'es ,tbat have 'not' been- eq.udUed ' since •September, ■ 1920, • ■ vvhen t 741,000 ' tons was-pfoduced. ; Last mohth's; -total dncludes 'the output of hettiatite, wliick shows., a-'big iherease owin'g to scveral , furnaces being transierre.d* -fr'onx" the:. smelting ,of basie pig iron. . ; • » The jnonthly output of Steel con- • tinued ;at , av .figure considerably in'-. exjcess of 1,000,000 tons, Ihe ^onnage, for last month being, ,1)008, ?ti0. • This is comp'ared with 1,106,400 tons in Juixe ' and 974,100 tons fdr July, 1936. This high rate of activity has beqn attained despite theincrease of Scottish holiclaysj which aceounted for a reduc- , tion of -the ScottUh. steel en^ut of • 53,000 tofis. : . • .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 3
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