WAR DEMANDS
UNESSENTIAL PRODUCTION CURTAILED. OTTAWA, October 3. Government controls are harnessing Canada’s peace time industry, to the expanding demands of war. Domestic production of radios, electric refrigerators, stoves, vacuum cleaners and washing machines is ordered to be cut to 75 per cent of the 1940 production. The production of automobiles in 1942 is limited to about 44 per cent of the 1940 output. Non-essential use of aluminium is cut from 27 per cent of production in 1940 to 2 per cent in 1941, of nickel from 40 per cent to 15 per cent, of zinc from 64 per cent to 25 per cent. The homely tin can with reduced tin content is slimming for war. The use of rolled steel plate in the manufacture of cigarette containers is prohibited. Cork, rubber and silk art classified as essential war materials. The purpose of all these orders is to conserve materials for war purposes. _
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 7
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153WAR DEMANDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 7
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