PLATING MATERIALS

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 3

PLATING MATERIALS

MINISTER ANNOUNCES CONTROL "Very severe resfcrictions on the use and the export of cadmium, nickel, chromic acids and salts have been effected in the United Kingdom, and it has been foand necessary tO' fo-1-low a. similar course in, New Zealand so far as these plating materials are concemed," said the Minister for Supply, Mr Sullivan, 011 Monday. "To meet the situation as it exists lOcallv, the plating control notice, 1942, has just been gazetted. "This notice/' said the Minister, "prohibits the use of tin, or tin salts, chromic acid or chromic salts, cadmium or cadmium salts, copper oi copper salts, nickel or nickel salts-, for any plating purpose excepting that certain equipment for the1 a-rmed services must necessa-rily be pla-ted, and where contractors are engaged in work to the order of or with the approval of the Munitions Controller, or an offlcer of the R.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 lis-ted may not be used except on an order issued with ihe' approval of the seeretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. the Post and Telegraph Department, the Munitions Controller, the Controller of RadiOi Production, or an offlcer of the R.N.Z.A.F. in the course o-f his duty. The notice1 is designed to meet the needs of our munitions programme. "The necessity for sustaining our production of equipment for the armed services is sufficiently obvious to require no stresslng, as also are the world shortages of the other essential materials lisfed in this order. Essentiality is the only basis on which the use of strategic materials can be allowed. and it is for this purpose that the notice ha? been gazetted."