COVERS 2,000 ACRES
GREAT ORDNANCE DEPOT IN AUSTRALIA (Rec. 8 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 24. The existence of Australia's greatest' ordnance depot near Albury, at tha junction of New South Wales and Victoria State railways systems, has been officially revealed. The depot, which covers more than 2,000 acres of former bushland, has been built in the last two-years and cost millions of pounds. Storehouses ' are packed with tens of \ millions of pounds' worth of material representing the bulk of United States lend-lease ordnance supplies. The depot also has a huge motor transport park. An inland site for the depot was /selected at the time when an attack on Australia by Japan was feared to be imminent. Nearly 20 miles of spur lines have been built to accommodate trains from New South Wales and Victoria.
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Evening Star, Issue 25032, 26 November 1943, Page 3
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133COVERS 2,000 ACRES Evening Star, Issue 25032, 26 November 1943, Page 3
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