STATE ENTERPRISES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 2

STATE ENTERPRISES

NEW SOUTH WALES SCHEMES, (from Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, 22nd February. The S,tate Government of New South Wales continues' to launch out into new enterprises, the latest being the buying out of a factory at Drummoyne near Sydney for the manufacture of al] the furniture required for the State Schools. The initial cost is stated at £9000, and the Minister for Education expects to effect a saving of £3000 a yar. From these figures it would seem that the makers of school furniture have had "a good thing on" with the Government. The Department now has an architect attached to its staff, with the object of getting him to specialise in school architecture, both as regards the school buildings and their equipment. The Government now has brickworks at Homebush and Botany, a standstone quarry at Maroubra, metal quarries at Kiama, . timber-yards at Uhr's Point, joinery works at RdsSelle, motor-repairing works in what is known as the Rocks area, lime and cement works at Taree, a State clothing factory, and a school furniture factory. The list is getting quite formidable. The Minister fo» Work 9is selling bricks to small buyers at the kiln at Homebush, and a start is to be made with the selling of Jime to the public. Treatment works are 'to be established at the new abattoirs at Homebush, and the State also proposes to enter into competition with exporters of meat, and when the new abattoirs are completed all slaughtering of stock is to pass from private enterprise to the State. There* is also a State ferries proposal, which is in the hands of the Public Works Committee. Perhaps the next move will be a State steamer service, such, as has already been established in West Australia.