MILLIONS OF SHELLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1915, Page 5

MILLIONS OF SHELLS.

FACTORIES KEPT BUSY. Some facts concerning the present activity in the production of shells and other munitions of war for the Allies by factories in Canada and America were given to a Herald representative by Mr. T. do Schryver, who returned to Auckland from Vancouver by the Makura. The Remington Arms Company at Bridge Port, in the United States, said Mr. de Schry.ver, was turning out ten million shells a month from its factories. In four months ten new factories had been built by this company, with the result that its output had been doubled. The Well and Vale Company at St. Katherine's, which usually manufactured hayforks and other garden tools, was now making shells and rifles, the Canadian Bullalo Forge Company way making shells, and the Ross Rifle Company at Quebec was centering its attention upon shells and rifles. Many other factories could not turn their hands to tin) making of these warlike goods because they were too busy manufacturing barbed-wire for England and her Allies! Orders for enormous quantities of wire had been received, and the result had been to send the price of spelter up to an enormous extent. Another big factory belonging to the Toronto Carpet Company was making blankets fpr the Government.

Mr. <le Schryver noticed no activity at the porta on the -west coast of America. Ail the -munitions for Russia appeared to be shipped at the Eastern ports, and Bent by way of the Panama Canal. Western Canada had had a wonderful wheat harvest, but in other parts only moderate crops had been harvested owing to stormy weather, Detroit had been flooded out, while at Galveston, in the United States, a pier connecting the port and city had been blown entirely away. Business was quiet at Vancouver, the city showin" undoubted signs of bad times. Through" out Canada, Mr. De Schryver found active steps were being taken to develop the country's export trade.