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AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SHIPPING CONTROL AND SHIP-
BUULDING
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Fefo. 8, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE. Feb. 8. A new War Precautions Act regulation empowers the Commonwealth to control the movements of every vessel registered in Australia. Negotiations have been completed for the purchase by the Commonwealth of the ship-building yards at Williamstown foi- £200,000. The Commonwealth takes possession to-day.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 February 1918, Page 5
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60AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 February 1918, Page 5
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