GROWING STRAIN ON INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 179, 26 April 1941, Page 12

GROWING STRAIN ON INDUSTRY

Australia’s War Output

(Received April 26, 12.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 25.

Though Australia’s prodigious achievement in the field of munitions produciton is generally regarded as one of the most impressive features of the Commonwealth’s war effort there is, says the “Sydney Morning Herald,” a growing feeling in influential quarters that drastic remedies may have to be applied if the productive capacity of the nation is to satisfy the rapidly increasing demands made upon it. The “Herald” hints at the likelihood of Australia having to replace the equipment in the hands of her troops in Greece and Egypt and the possibility of having to supply unaided the fighting forces of South Africa, Rhodesia. Kenya, India, Burma, Malaya, and New Zealand, Expert observers say she will not be able f to do all these things with the present output from her factories. Coupled with the fact that certain vitally important military equipment has failed to come forward in the time scheduled or in quantities made necessary by the enormous commitments.. the “Herald” adds, the conviction Is growing daily that the time hue com-.-when the people will have to atuue themselves to the idea of national control of manpower, manufacturing cap : acity and productive resources, including finance.