DEMAND FOR COPPER.
Australia's production of copper is being stepped-up in an endeavour to meet the shortage for general purposes, caused by the high demand for copper in munitions making. The present position is entirely different from that in 1914-18, when Australia had copper to export and a comparatively small need of copper for its own infant munitions undertakings. The need for copper might be eased to some degree, if the authorities were prepared to treat British specifications for some types of war materials being produced in Australia as flexible. Some* of the specifications called for copper when, "at a pinch, other materials could serve the end d'/iired satisfactorily, the copper so saved being put to more urgent uses. Mr. L. V. Naughton, secretary of the Australian Mines and Metals Association, stated that the shortage of copper supplies was serious enough to warrant the commandeering by the Federal Government of any copper articles in factories, for which substitutes could be found.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 10
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161DEMAND FOR COPPER. Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 10
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