CANADA’S PART.
PROSECUTION OF AVAR. VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION. (British Official Wireless.) Received April 20, 10.7 a.m. RUGBY, April 19. The latest details of Canada’s war contracts .serve to illustrate the magnitude of her war effort, Canadian purchases of war materials and supplies from mid-July, 1939, to the df February, 1940, amounted to 142,0/3,838 dollars and more recent purchases have averaged about 1.7 million dollars daily. In January and February about 14 million dollars worth of aircraft and supplies were purchased by the War Supplv Board, including 404 Da Haviland Tigers, 404 fleet trainers and a number of Noordwvn Harvards. Orders placed in the same period for new ships and the refitting and conversion of old vessels totalled 48 million dolia,| Tbe sum of 1.100,000 dollars has been spent on special machinery for manufacturing a secret type of war vehicle.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 121, 20 April 1940, Page 7
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138CANADA’S PART. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 121, 20 April 1940, Page 7
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