ORDNANCE STORES
MANUFACTURE IN INDIA CONFERENCE OF CONTROLLERS (British Official!Wireless) 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. The scheme for expansion of clothing production is being implemented, and production is steadily rising. A report on germination tests of flax seeds was considered satisfactory, and it has been decided to proceed-with the 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, and a further 10,000 tons of scrap a month for the next 12 months. Arrangements have been completed for the supply of 300,000 tons of pig and foundry iron to Britain-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24411, 24 September 1940, Page 8
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140ORDNANCE STORES Otago Daily Times, Issue 24411, 24 September 1940, Page 8
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