RAILWAYS SURPLUS
ALL RECORDS BROKEN IN SOUTH AFRICA PRODUCTION OF MUNITIONS. DEVELOPED ON IMPORTANT SCALE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CAPE TOWN, March 13. The Minister of Harbours and Railways, Mr. Sturrock, presenting the railways budget to Parliament, announced a surplus of £2.400,000, which breaks nearly all records for railway working. He said that more than 700 railwaymen have been released for military duties, and 1200 full-time and 800 parttime men are engaged in munitions production in the railway workshops, which are turning out a great variety of .armaments, including 3.7 howitzers, bombs and armoured-car and machinegun mountings. A committee is being appointed to investigate possibilities of expansion of the workshops.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 5
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109RAILWAYS SURPLUS Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 5
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