INDIA’S ROLE.
INCREASED SUPPLIES.
(British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 22. In India a conference of Controllers of Supplies is at present investigating the manufacture in India itself of many ordnance stores hitherto imported. A scheme for the expansion of clothing production is being implemented and production is steadily rising. _ A report on germination tests of flax seeds is considered satisfactory, and it has been decided to proceed with a scheme for the cultivation of flax. Britain has been informed that India can, after meeting the present steel demands from the Middle East. Iraq, Kenya, and Uganda, provide a balance of light steel products of 10,000 tons a month, also a further 10,000 tons of 6crap a month for the next twelve months. Arrangements have been completed to supply 300,000 tons of pig and foundry iron to Britain at the rate of 50,000 tons a month.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 253, 23 September 1940, Page 7
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148INDIA’S ROLE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 253, 23 September 1940, Page 7
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