SUPPLIES FOR BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 9

SUPPLIES FOR BRITAIN

INCREASED PRODUCTION NEEDED. CALL FOR UNITED EFFORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 22. “Britain will require every pound of meat, dairy produce and wool that New Zealand can produce, and all methods to increase production of war necessities must be ardently pursued,” said the chairman of directors MF H. E. Worsp, at the annual meeting of the Auckland Farmers' FreezingCompany. “There is a great responsibility on every New Zealander to spare no effort to assist the Mother Country in her time of acute need,” he said. “On farm, factory, wharf and in all other directions there will be no room for the slacker. All work must be honourably and loyally carried on. Farmers must be supplied with willing workers, and there must be no .laxity of the effort of dairy factory, freezing works, and wharf operations. The quickest turnround must be given overseas vessels. A shortage of ships, delays from the convoy system, and a dislocation of' food supplies from neutral countries make this imperative.

“I am glad that in the company’s permanent staff are men of the right calibre; men who are keen to serve the community to the very best of their ability.” Mr Worsp explained that during the war the surplus principal primary products above New Zealand’s own requirements are to be purchased by the New Zealand Government for sale to the British Government at prices to be agreed on by the two Governments.