WAR ORGANISATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1942, Page 4

WAR ORGANISATION

-—— CONTINUING EXPANSION < IN CANADA. HOUSING AND OTHER SCHEMES. OTTAWA, May 28. Government housing schemes now extend to fifty communities throughout the Dominion. Including April contracts, a total Of 11,243 houses, 55 staff houses, 8 dining halls and 14 special buildings have been completed, are under contract, or are pending. The aggregate value of work contracted for or contemplated by Wartime Housing Limited is over 37,000.000 dollars. War Time Housing is one of twenty Government-owned companies created since the war. Its particular function is to -provide housing accommodation for munition workers in communities where serious congestion has developed in consequence of war projects. But the activities of these twenty Crown ■companies extend'over an ever-broad-ening field of Canada’s war effort. They operate chemical, explosives and ammunition -filling plants. They manufacture special alloy steels, supervise the -purchase of machine tools, salvage old cutting tools, purchase wool and silk, build houses and ships, produce small arms, and manufacture secret war equipment. Canada’s fighting forces enlisted vol- ■ untarily for service anywhere now total . ■430,000 —namely, Air Force, 110,000; ( Navy, 30,000; Army, 290,000. These fig- ; :ures do not include the Reserve Army < nor men compulsorily called up for j military duty in Canada. Between ] 600,000 and 700,000 men arid women are ] engaged directly or indirectly in muni-L tions production. . I