WAR PRODUCTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 6

WAR PRODUCTION

AUSTRALIAN EFFORT

SHARE FOR NEW ZEALAND

Evidence of vast strides being made in the production of munitions, aeroplanes, and other war equipment was seen by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) during his Australian visit. Mr. Fraser, who returned to Wellington yesterday, said that Australia's war effort impressed him very much. There was a good understanding and cooperation between New Zealand and Australia, he said, and New Zealand was obtaining a good proportionate share of Australian war production.

"There is a full realisation on the part of the Australian Government of the seriousness of the present situatiqrfiri all.spheres of war activity," said Mr. Fraser. "The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Curtin, and his colleagues realise that there is absolutely no justification for complacency at the present time. Though Australia has achieved much in its war effort it is organising for still- greater achievements."

Mr. Fraser said the problems discussed at the meetings of the Australian War Cabinet and War Advisory Council which he attended on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, were very similar to those that engage the attention of the War Cabinet, the War Administration, and the War Council in New Zealand. The consultations he had with Mr. Curtin, the War Cabinet, and the War Council related to matters of first-rank importance as affecting the war generally and the war in the Pacific in particular. ' ■:

"I was pleased, to meet members of all parties, .including present-day Ministers and ex-Ministers, all of whom since the war commenced have invariably co-operated with New Zealand," Mr, Fraser added.