WAR INDUSTRY
CHANGES IN CANADA. LARGER OUTPUT OF OFFENSIVE WEAPONS. OTTAWA, May 14. During a discussion in the Canadian House of Commons on the Mutual Aid Bill which now stands for the third reading, the Minister of Munitions and Supply, Mr C. D. Howe, intimated that the war production programme was being revised. The war had passed from defensive to offensive and certain defensive weapons, such as antiaircraft guns, were not needed to the former extent. Among items likely to be affected were all types of army guns, including anti-aircraft guns, many types of artillery and ammunition. In the course of time there would be a reduction of Bren gun plant as the extent of the present output was no longer required. In spite of the change, however, there would be a serious overall shortage of manpower in war industry. Labour was to be transferred to plants making the equipment most urgently needed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1943, Page 4
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