NEW SHIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1941, Page 4

NEW SHIPS

CONSTRUCTION in empire YARDS LAUNCHINGS IN CANADA. AUSIItA LI A N IN DU STR Y EXPANDING Official WircU-0,..1 RUGBY, January 2. Empire shipbuilding yards, by providing new tonnage, are helping Britain to defeat the U-boat menace. Canada which before the war had about 1.250 (MX) tons on its shipping registry, has hiuiwhed new vessels from yards at Vancouver, Montreal amt Halifax A large nmnljer «>f merchsint. ships are now i-n the stocks ar.i! •’ was announced recently that Canada is io build IB large mvi’chatit vessels for the British 'iovernnwnt There arr some 40 shipbuilding and ■.• jairrng <-oablishmen’: in the Do-■ro-o- -. ;md e>' ii b<-for>- the war aboui P-. > p<-i itpiirn’. workers wero employ-' -d In l!i3!i n-pair Work w.ss doiie-ho :h<- value £lOOO,OOO. Al'.iie :/.h Smith Africa has no real .iHpbiHldmg industry large-.scale rea,.!’, can be earned out Durban. ,t. h< re there is a well-equipped rcpair:,g yard and drydock Australia built onls a small number d b<-f,- r<- the war but hai since .;:<Mtiy enlarged >t- •ihlpbtiildmg inA -ord be established, a! Vhs.dk> A, ~;!■> AmlrMia bmld .. { .. t . -. L jf;* *■ h 1 1 ■ ‘ ! » - h- - ; > (‘(A I j > . t !-<>'' <.' •• ! t?.t 1 _ . T M'■Y .: ' . -'i ';, f « {'l' ’ ! 1 - ;,e’,w< : iut.i'. yards at Morts Duck, and at \ - Dockaid. near Meib-jurm- Orders amoun'e f ; V z'e o-ii for engines arid .. wory mw Mrm ph'H'rd m