BUILDING OF SHIPS
MILLIONS PROVIDED AUSTRALIAN PROGRAMME (Reed. Feb.-21, 2.15 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 21. The provision of £6,000,000 by the Commonwealth Government for a substantial programme of merchant shipbuilding is announced by the Minister of Munitions, Senator P. A. Mcßride. The programme is to be under the control of the Shipbuilding Commission within the Department of Munitions. The chief problem before the commission, said Mr. Mcßride, would not be the construction of hulls, but of engines and other equipment. Productive capacity, not finance, would be the dominating consideration. The commission would complete the investigations already well advanced into the types of vessels and appropriate places for their construction.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20487, 22 February 1941, Page 9
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108BUILDING OF SHIPS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20487, 22 February 1941, Page 9
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