GOOD PROGRESS
SHIPBUILDING IN CANADA MINISTER GIVES DETAILS OF PROGRESS. ABOUT 1,000,000 TONS IN HAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, August 11. Some details of the Canadian shipbuilding programme were given in London by the Canadian Minister of Naval Services, who stated that there are about 1,000,000 tons of merchant shipping being built in Canada, as well as some destroyers. The Minister said the merchant ships were mainly of two standard tyres. 10.000 tonners and 5,000 tonners. The programme was undertaken in the early part of the year and the first vessel built under the scheme will be ready before the end of 1941. The whole scheme will come to maturity next year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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