NATIONAL WORKS
PROGRAMME APPROVED. UNDERTAKINGS IN AUSTRALIA. (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 1 30.) CANBERRA, This Day. The State Premiers endorsed, at a National Works, Council meeting, an “A” priority programme of post-war works, at an estimated ■cost of £192,889,000. The Premiers decided that no schedule of national works agreed to by the .Council'should’be released; for publication because it would be an embarrassment whenever any particular work could not be gone on with. . An amount of £12,240,000 for housing programmes, for which the Commonwealth Government has ‘accepted financial responsibility, Avas included in the Government loan programmes totalling £31,023,000, which were approved by the Loan Council. •In addition a total of £3,348,000 was approved for semi-Governmental and local authorities.
The Prime Minister (Mr «T. B. Clvifley) gave an undertaking that (he necessary special steps to expedite the release of technical men from the services to assist jn planning postwar works will be taken.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 268, 23 August 1945, Page 5
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