Canada’s production of merchant ships moves rapidly ahead. By December, 1942, the President of the Wartime Merchant Shipping Ltd. announces, Canada will have produced 65 cargo ships out of the present programme of 172 ships costing 325,000,000 dollars. Already 25 have been delivered or are ready for delivery. The ships are mostly of the 10,000 ton class. Before the war, shipbuilding in Canada was limited to a few thousand tons annually. Now 60,000 persons are directly or indirectly employed in shipbuilding. War Time Merchant Shipping Ltd; is a Government-owned corporation which supervises cargo ship construction.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 5
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95Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 5
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