NATIONAL WORK
Making Hand Grenades In Australia By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 12. A, director of the R. B. Davies Proprietary, Ltd., Sydney, Mr. R. B. Davies, a through passenger on the Monterey, is controller of one of the 13 munitions .annexes under the supervision of the Commonwealth Government. The company has been making hand, grenades for the past two years and the outbreak of war has meant a heavy increase in orders. “That isn’t my business,” he said, when asked if grenades were shipped .to other parts of the Empire. He added that manufacturers of war weapons did not consider the question of profit, the work being looked upon in the light of a national undertaking. Speaking of import control in Australia, Mr. Davies said it was necessary for all the Dominions to introduce such a scheme in order to prevent the pound sterling slipping as compared with the American dollar. Now that Britain was buying' munitions from the United States of America it was necessary that dollar exchange be conserved.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 68, 13 December 1939, Page 8
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172NATIONAL WORK Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 68, 13 December 1939, Page 8
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