WAR MUNITIONS
AUSTRALIAN COMPANY
TALK WITH CONTROLLER
(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 thirteen munitions annexes under the supervision of the Commonwealth Government.
The. company has been engaged 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 America it was necessary that dollar exchange be conserved.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 142, 13 December 1939, Page 7
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