MERCHANT SHIPPING.
BUILDING IN AUSTRALIA. BIG PROGRAMME IN AUSTRALIA. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The provision of £6,000,000 by the Commonwealth Government for a substantial programme of merchant shipbuilding is announced by tho Minister of Munitions (Senator Mcßride). The programme will bo under control of the Shipbuilding Commission Avitliin the Department of Munitions. The chief problem before the Commission, said Senator Mcßride, will' not--bo the construction of hulls but of engines and other equipment. Productive capacity, not finance, Avill be tho dominating consideration. The Commission will complete tho investigations, already avoll adA'anced, into types of vessels and appropriate places for their construction.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 112, 21 February 1941, Page 5
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