Aerial Activities.
Messrs K. R. Johnston and R. L. McGregor flew from the Hood Aerodrome to Christchurch on Wednesday. Mr Johnston returned to Masterton on Thursday. Steel More Plentiful. Advices received by Auckland importers from English steelworks arc to the effect that manufacturers are now not able only to cater for the British domestic demand for steel, but are also in a position to export steel rods, flat plates, and indeed practically all types of steel. This means that the British steel industry, or a section of it, has substantially overtaken the extraordinary demand caused by British rearmament, which caused a steel shortage on world markets. The scarcity of steel has been in existence so long that requirements are now ordered fairly well ahead. Orders are being supplied from Australia within 18 to 20 weeks for sections or girders and within 40 weeks for reinforcing rods. The experience is that acute scarcities develop from time to time for different classes of steel fairly close to the periods in which such types are rolled at the mills.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1938, Page 6
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176Aerial Activities. Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1938, Page 6
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