FIGHTING VEHICLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1941, Page 6

FIGHTING VEHICLES

! PRODUCTION IN DOMINION

ARRIVAL OF BRITISH EXPERT TO ADVISE AND ASSIST GOVERNMENT.

(By Telegraph—Press Association..* AUCKLAND. February 4

To advise and collaborate with the ■ New Zealand Government in the pro--1 duction of tanks and other fighting 1 vehicles Mr H. Heath, a member of) * the British Ministry of Supply, arrived : from Sydney by the Awarua today, i Mr Heath was a member of the British ; delegation to the Empire Economic ! Conference at Delhi, last October, and 1 since then has spent some time in Aus-' I tralia conferring with officials. "Britain wants everything she can) I get." said Mr Heath when asked' 1 what was particularly required of New j Zealand in. the way of war material.! > Mr Heath said tanks and other tight-! 1 Ing vehicles were his special interest. | land ho would discuss questions of production with Government officials and; ) others. He would also endeavour to! I assist in solving any problems that mid! ; already arisen in the sphere of arma-i merit manufacturing. j Mr Heath will spend nearly a fort-! ) night in New Zealand before leaving! I for America by the Pan-American I i clipper. In the United States lie will* 'confer with the British purchasing! ' Mission al Washington. He hopes to! {return to Britain by the middle oft j March. On his arrival Mr Heath was moll iby the Government reception officer. J Air Furlong, and subsequently left fori i the south. lie will make Wellington' • his headquarters in the Dominion. j