AUSTRALIAN PLANS
Merchant Shipbuilding
MELBOURNE, February 21.
The provision of £6,000,000 by the Commonwealth Government for a substantial programme of merchant shipbuilding has been announced by the Aliuister of Munitions, Senator Mcßride. The programme will be under the control of a shipbuilding commission within the Department of Munitions.
The chief problem before the commission, said Senator Mcßride, will not be the construction of hulls, but of engines and other equipment. Productive capacity, not finance, will be the dominating consideration. The commission will complete the investigations, which are already will advanced, into types of vessels and appropriate places for their construction.
Tire Acting-Prime Minister, Mr. Eadden, announced that five members of the Federal Parliament, had been appointed to investigate to what extent people at present unemployed can be used iu the manufacture of munitions and other war equipment. Tlie Government, is also preparing plans for laying down reserve stocks of essential materials and foodstuffs on the same lines as is being done in Britain.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 11
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