NEW INDUSTRIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 8

NEW INDUSTRIES.

SCHEMES IN N.S.W. 1

LARGE DEFENCE PROGRAMME.

£59,000,000 TO BE SPENT. (From Our Own Corn-spi SYDNEY, November 3. Fnmie. the fibre from whi<-h the made the cloth !r. which they swathed their mnmmie- tiiou-r-aud years ago. may be in Australia. Following iin.-Ui re->Hil eri'-rts to grow Haw experiment - with ranie weTe conduet od in New Somli W.i.,-. and. •southern Quecni-luiid. and the rc-r-ults wen- si! encourajiiir.' thai I.i-;ale development i.- now planned. I: is ntate<l that it may he possible t>■ e-tab-lHi an export trade, and the \.-t!ne of the projected industry is e.-: incite,l at about £1.0(10.(1(10 a year. This, however, is only oi:e <■;' many new industries nlxint t" e-ja 'ii-lied in New South W'alw. of which partir-u----l- were "hen in a -talemem hy the Minister for Labour and Indn-trv. Mr. Collan. The.-e new industries have been planned with the aid of the l)e\ clnt.ment and Information Bureau recently set up hv the State C.overnment on ;he sug-ei-stion of the Premier. Mr. Mair. and with the .strong support of the State Leader of the Country parly. Mr. Bruxner. one of the main objects he inn to decentralize industry by establishing as manv new industries as po-.-ibie in country towns. Many New Ventures. Anions the more important oj the new ventures are the following:—Cutlery, fork.- and spoons. imports £.">7."">.015 •annually. capital £20.000; artificial teeth, imports £7T.47i;: lenses, imports £5r,.213; eclophane. imports £i>t».225; cotton wool bandages, etc.. imports £277.402; dextrine. imports £">0.000; shovel,, imports £.ml 70; fancy yarns, im])ort> £.~>0.00ii: glucose iind adhesives, imports £.->.1.120; cushions, tray cloths, etc., import.- £1 05.7 :?•">; ha'nerdashery, imports £.->7.Sl.">; paper go.-ds. imports. £2">.OO0: cotton weaves, imports £">.000.000. capital £."">0.000: gloves, imports £200.000. This la-t industry is iiein? transferred to New South A\ ales fioni Sudetenl-.md formerly Czechoslovakia. Anion- other projects to be established are the treatment of fish wa«te. the manufacture of plaster of paris. the manufacture of cans, the refining of waste and used motor oils. Defence Expansion. The enormous expansion in Australia 8 defence programme announced on Wednesday ni'-'ht bv the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, will also give an important impetus to industry. During the current year £.">0,500.000 will be spent, of which £14..">OO.OO0 is for the Navy, £28.200.000 for the Army. and £11.000.000 for the Air Force. The last does not include the cost of the Empire air training scheme. Of the total outlav only £7.700.000. or 1H per cent, will be' spent abroad, of which the largest simile item will be the ,>0 extra Ivock-lieed-Hudson bombers which Australia will order from the United States. The works to be carried out in Australia include the building of 3">o Tiger Moth airframes. ">OO Gypsy Major engines and 4000 mechanised vehicles, including trucks, armoured cars, artillerv tractors, armoured machine-gun carriers, motor cycles for dispatch riders and travelling workshops. Of four new munitions factories to l>e built, at least one, a factory for filling explosives into ammunition, will be located in thw State at Albury. Three Tribal class destroyers will be constructed at Cockatoo Island instead of two and the Commonwealth is also offering to build ships at Sydney for Great BritainPro ducer-Gas "Units. It is also probable that a new- industry may arise in the manufacture of producer-gas units for fitting not only to buses and trucks, but also to private cars. Several successful experiments have been made and the Transport Departments in both Sydney and Mel- ' bourne are now about to put into service . buseti which can operate either as ordinary Diesel-driven units or on pro-ducer-gas. The difficulty in adapting producer-gas to private cars lias been the expense of the producer-gas uuit, but the Commonwealth <lovernment is now investigating means of making units in suHicient quantities to enable them to be sold at lower prices. These plans are really more in the nature of a precaution against possible prolongation of the war. There is no present shortage of petrol in Australia, and the Federal < Jovcrnnient has announced that people can make their Christmas and . New Year holiday plans without any i fear that rationing will l>e introduced . before then.