AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 427, 7 May 1937, Page 2

AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

Soviet Industry’s Success Moscow, April 28. The Central Statistical Bureau announces that the industrial side of the second Five-Year Plan has been completed nine months ahead of schedule. Coal, oil, and some other commodicies are stated to be lagging behind the production peaks set; for them under the plan. Production of all commodities is now given as seven times greater than in pre-war days. Russia claims first place in the world for output of farm machinery, and second place in Europe for electrical power and aluminium. Production of machines' and machine tools is stated to be 10 times that of 1914. Beginning on January 19, 1934, the second Five-Year Plan provided for 1937 production to be 2J times greater than that of 1932, when thp first plan ended. An increase of 837 per cent; in motor car production was called for, and three times the number of tractors had io be built. Seven thousand miles' of railways was to be constructed, and agricultural output doubled. Living conditions, health and education were to be improved', and 50 per cent, more students added to schools and colleges. Eighty per cent. of . the new pro. duction had to come from enterprises built or reconstructed during the first plan.