Ottawa.— Clothing an army is a staggering job. During the first eleven months of war, Canada bought 18,000.000 yards of woollen and cotton cloth for her armed forces, enough to stretch from Ottawa to Berlin and back again. Within a few months the forces will need eight miles of puttee cloth, more than 2,000,000 pairs of socks, and 1 000,000 shirts, not to mention 4500 miles of drill cloth for summer uniforms The Minister of Munitions and Supply, the Hon. C. D. Howe, stated that production of uniforms has reached 20,000 a week.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 5
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