INDUSTRY SPEED-UP ON ARMY 'PLANES.
AUSTRALIA'S PLANS.
Hundreds Of Aircraft Ordered By Cabinet.
MOUNTING DEFENCE COST.
United Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received noon.)
MELBOURNE, this day.
The special war measures will cost Australia £27,194,000 for the year 1939-40. The expenditure on all the defence .services will be £56,555,000. The War Cabinet has confirmed plana for a rapid expansion in the construction in Australia of war 'planes and training craft, and approval has been given for the purchase of 100 more Wirraway 'planes and engines, and the laying in of stocks of raw materials for another 100 Wirraways.
The construction of 90 Bristol Beaufort bombers and the purchase of 3,50 Tiger Moth air frame*, 250 Gipsy (Hgiues, and 50 Moth Minor 'planes in Australia and overseas has also been authorised.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 9
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