AUSTRALIAN DOCKS
Wartime Development MELBOURNE, August 7. In an election address last night, the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, said that concurrently with military operations dock facilities had been increased at the ports of Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Moresby and Milne Bay, new roads to Darwin had been built, and roads aqd railways in Queensland. A submarine base had been constructed at Exmouth Gulf, in Western Australia, and improvement’s made to the harbours at I' remantle and Hogan Sound. The garrison at. Milne Bay, eastern New Guinea, had been increased twofold, and at Port Moresby fourfold. Mr. Curtin said he could promise no decrease in taxation nor any refunds of taxation after (he war. The volume of cargo handled at Australian ports during the first half of was about double that iu the latter halt of 1942, said Mr. J. Curtin, defending the employment of soldiers on the wharves-
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 269, 9 August 1943, Page 4
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147AUSTRALIAN DOCKS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 269, 9 August 1943, Page 4
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