GREAT DRIVE.
COMMONWEALTH EFFORT.
In an address delivered over the weekend tho Minister of Supply, the Hon. D. O. Sullivan, in dealing with his recent visit to Australia, threw some light upon the great war effort the Commonwealth is making industrially. He said that all Hections of the community were playing their part and particularly in the engineering works and munition factories were the workers rendering long hours of service, and doing it both willingly and cheerfully. In one factory in Melbourne, said the Minister, women were working the clock round in three shifts.
Applications for service in thp AllForce had reached 100,00(1 and 20,000 men had been accepted. Mr. Sullivan snid he thought that at the beginning of war hostilities New Zealand was more alert tliaii Australia and that it was only in the past eight weeks that public opinion in the Commonwealth had crystallised in the foi :n of a great drive by the Government in the supply of munitions.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 172, 22 July 1940, Page 4
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