MUNITIONS OUTPUT
AUSTRALIAN PLANS NEW ORDNANCE FACTORY (E»ee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. June 3, 2.15 p.m.) MELBOURNE, June 3. The Minister of Munitions announced that the Government had decided to set up a new ordnance factory in Victoria, the capital cost of which is estimated at £750,000. It would produce guns and mountings of a type recently adopted by the British Army and heavier than those being produced in Australia for the use of the field army. Proposals for bringing into wartime employment a large percentage of the men still unemployed in Australia have been placed before the Government by the Federal man-power committee. The approximate unemployment figures for the three States are: New South Wales, 30,000; Victoria, 6000; and South Australia. 3000. The committee believes that at least half could be employed in some phase of the war effort, and suggests that unskilled men should be given some training to fit them for work in munition factories.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20572, 4 June 1941, Page 9
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