MUNITIONS OUTPUT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1939, Page 9

MUNITIONS OUTPUT

AUSTRALIAN PLANS

A GREAT EXPANSION

(Received. October 17, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Minister of Supply and Development, Mr. R. G. Casey, in a broadcast address, said that the War Cabinet had approved! of a capital expenditure ./ of some millions of pounds for the extension of the manufacture of muni- ' tions. Australia's shell production was to be doubled and the. delivery of Wirraway planes was to be expedited so that soon a complete squadron would be equipped with the new aircraft every three weeks. MELBOURNE, This Day. The expansion of all arms of th« fighting services was considered by the War Cabinet, but the Prime Minister, > Mr. R. G. Menzies, said that the Government's decisions could not be announced yet. ■ . ■ '■ : \ (British Offlclal Wireless.) l (Received October 17, 10 ajn.) - RUGBY, October 16. < Prominence is given to a Melbourne report that Mr. R. G. Casey, the Commonwealth Treasurer, declared that by the end of the year twenty-one armament "annexes" will be operating in ' y Australia and that the output of planes will soon be great enough to equip and complete a: squadron every three weeks. "Australia will become an Empire arsenal practically independent of outside sources for arms, munitions, , and raw materials for making them,' Mr. Casey stated.