TO EAST INDIES
i AUSTRALIA MAY SHIP GOODS Jlec.' 12.45 p.m. V CANBERRA, Dec. 2. ! The Commonwealth Munitions Department has begun negotiations to provide a wide range of goods in the next-12 months for the rehabilitation of the Netherlands East Indies. The Netherlands Government is seeking goods to the value of about' £10,000,000. ! Announcing the -negotiations," the [Minister, of Munitions, Mr. N. J. O. jMakin/sa^hi?hoped to secure a majqr jpart of the orders for Australian manufacturers. - :'•; -. <
Australia was already filling export (Orders for Britain, India, and New Zeajland. The- items included locomotives land rolling stock components, steel rails, machine tools, and electrical equipment /In 1944 the value of con- ' Signments to Britain of arms and munitions drawn from Australian pro•ductidn v/as £3,500:000.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 8
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122TO EAST INDIES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 8
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