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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1943, Page 4

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IMPRESSIVE DETAILS OF MUTUAL AID. GIVEN BY UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATOR. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, January 24. The United States Lend-Lease Administrator, Mr Stettinius, stated in Washington that reciprocal lend-lease operations had reached such proportions as to result in saving millions of tons of shipping space. America was shipping almost no food to its forces in the Pacific area and was receiving over a hundred million pounds from Australia and New Zealand. American forces in Britain from May to November, 1942, received supplies, besides construction materials, equalling 1,200,000 tons of shipping space, which surpassed the tonnage of supplies from America in the same period. Two-thirds .of the civil labour force building camps for American troops was supplied by Britain, which also provided two-thirds of the warships and transports and much of the equipment for the North African campaign. Britain had turned over to the Americans thousands of barrage balloons, anti-aircraft guns, machine tools and convoy vessels.