DEEPLY IMPRESSED
N.S.W. Minister and British Rcarmament (Receiyed 21 8.00 a.m.) SUVA, August 20. Major J. B. Shand, assistant-Minis-ter in the New Soyth Wales Executive Couneil, was a passenger by the Niagara, wbich arrived here to-day. Major Shand said that be had been deeply irapressed by the organisation tbat was being carried out in Britain to meet any possibilities arising from tbe international situation. Armaments had been spoeded up, and a spurt had been piade by all trades. 'Ihe great expansion of industrial activity in Cangda Whe alsp mentioned by JMajor Shand who stated thqt a contract for a canal linking the St Lawreixce River with the (Rreat LaU'es had reeently closed. The contract, lie said, was estimated at 27,000,000 dollard,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 5
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