ARMY MUST BE KEPT UP
AUSTRALIA’S SHORTAGE. MEN FOR FARMS. (Rec. 10.50) CANBERRA, May 3. Sections of the community experiencing manpower difficulties could hope for little relief until the war ended, the Acting Prime Minister Hon. F. W. Forde, said to-day. The manpower authorities had demands for forty thousand persons for industry generally, and there was no hope of finding them. “This is the most crucial year of the war,, declared Mr. Forde. “Our Australian fighting forces must be maintained, in view of their commitments. There can be no further whittling down of their striking power.” Mr. Forde disclosed that the manpower problem had been the chief item discussed both in the War Cabinet and the Advisory War Council this week. Fie revealed that there was to be a re-examination of the discharges from the Army with a view to giving the dairying industry higher priority.
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Grey River Argus, 4 May 1944, Page 5
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