RECORD OF BUILDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1943, Page 4

RECORD OF BUILDING

AUSTRALIAN WORKS

COUNCIL

(Rec. noon.) CANBERRA, Feb. 10. The Australian War Cabinet has approved the principle that all refugees and enemy aliens made available by the man-power authority should be called up immediately by the Allied Works Council. Reviewing the achievements of the Allied Works Council, the Minister for the Interior, Senator Collings, said that in the first year of its existence the council had placed under construction works valued at £6ooooiooo Expenditure had been consistent at the rate of £1,000,000 a week. Among the works undertaken by the council were:—For the Navy. Graving docks, oil storage facilities, boom and anti-submarine defences, stores, and barracks. For the Army: Strategic roads, railways bridges, and hospitals. For the Air Force: Aerodromes and installations, training schools. For the Munitions and Aircraft Production Departments: Factories in which aircraft and every type of munitions were being manufactured, railways. . A network of 5000 miles of strategic roads, the equivalent of a highway from Melbourne to Tokio, has been, carved across the continent, and hundreds of aerodromes have been constructed. One project cost £6.000,000, and two others £4,000,000. Today the council has completed *50 major undertakings and has 1200 more on its books, in addition to 5000 minor projects each costing less than £5000. More than 53,000 men work under control of the council.