TANK PRODUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1941, Page 9

TANK PRODUCTION

FACILITIES IN DOMINION RAILWAY WORKSHOPS INSPECTED. AN EXPERT'S VISIT ißy Telegraph—Press Association.! WELLINGTON. This Day. Since his arrival in the Dominion a few days ago to advise and collaborate with the New Zealand Government in the production of tanks and other armoured vehicles. Mr. Harold Heath, a member of the British Ministry of Supply, has visited some of the railway workshops and inspected the facilities for the manufacture of this class of equipment. He had also had long consultations with the Minister of Munitions and Supply. Mr. Sullivan, as well as with members of the War Cabinet and the Army General Staff. Mr. Heath, who was accompanied on his visits to the railway workshops by the Controller of Munitions. Mr. E. T. Spidy. was a member of the British mission to the Empire Economic Conference in Delhi last October. Several other members of that mission visited the Dominion before Mr. Heath, and it is understood that the railway workshops and other engineering establishments in various parts of the Dominion were thoroughly inspected by these experts. They arc said to have expressed a very high opinion of the standard of efficiency of the workers and technical staff employed in these shops, and to have been impressed with the modern equipment and engineering facilities installed. Though Mr. Heath has not yet had the opportunity of making so extensive an inspection of the country’s engineering resources, from what he has already seen there is reason to believe that he fully endorses' their views.